TRB is licensed to run on a PC with a registered MAC address, and a separate license file will be issued in addition to the product installation CD. The license file will be installed in the directory c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Asti License Files. Windows XP provides an alias for this path called "My Computer\Shared Files".

Note: Only one MAC address located on the PC is required to be registered, and in the case of PCs with multiple ethernet cards, any of the available NICs may be used for operation as long as the registered MAC address is physically available on the PC.

A free trial version is available for customers to verify that TRB will satisfy their requirements. The trial version does not require licensing, and will be fully functional for 15 minutes; after this time, the application must restarted to continue execution.

TRB runs on a standard Windows platform, and will support up to two separate network interface cards (NIC). The use of two network interface cards is optional, and most of the filtering and transformation capabilities may be of benefit in a single subnet using two different port numbers.

The minimum hardware requirement are:

• 800 MHz Intel compatible PC with 256 MB of RAM
• Available hard drive space of 15 MB
• Standard network interface card (NIC)
• Video card with a resolution of at least 1024 x 768
• Mouse
• Keyboard
• CD-ROM for the software installation

The minimum hardware platform recommendation demonstrates satisfactory application performance. The actual memory utilization is typically around 2 MB for the application.

Performance testing of TRB has indicated that the main limiting factor in performance capability is the total PDUs per second on the DIS LAN. Satisfactory performance has been demonstrated on a 2.4 GHz desktop with a configuration of 1,500 DIS radios, with 75 radio transmissions being simultaneously transformed between muLaw and CVSD.

TRB software was designed to operate under Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The recommended operating system is Windows XP Professional.

For best results, it is recommended to use video settings of 1280 x 1024 with 32 bit color, a DPI setting of 96, and the Windows XP display 'Theme' option set to 'Classic'.

While any particular service pack is not required for TRB, all product testing was carried under Windows XP Professional (Version 5.1.2600, Service Pack 1, and Service Pack 2).

Note: While some additional latency is unavoidable, TRB introduces minimum additional latency. Even under severe loading conditions, additional latency should be below 10 ms.

See also:

• Product Overview
• Download TRB Technical User Guide [ 400k PDF ]
• Windows Software Pricing