General Technical Requirements General Information
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General Information The Englishtown School self-study content is 100% web-based and consists primarily of Macromedia Flash applications along with HTML and DHTML text and image elements which are assembled using Microsoft ASP technology. Live discussion session are offered to premium subscribers through the Englishtown Virtual Classroom client which is powered by Centra Software’s Symposium product. You can read more about Centra here: http://www.centra.com/products/symposium/index.asp . These specifications are offered only as a preliminary step and they will be refined and revised, as needed, depending on discussions between the customer and Englishtown. Client-Side Requirements The basic client side hardware and software requirements are summarized below:
PC with a Pentium II, P-III or Celeron processor. Englishtown does not support the Macintosh operating system. Pentium III or higher processor recommended Processor speed (MHz) & memory (RAM): 350+ MHz, 64+ MB memory Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, NT, or XP Sound card: Sound Blaster 16 compatible sound card or better Audio components: Headset with microphone, or separate microphone and speakers
800 x 600 screen resolution Recommended: 1024 x 768 screen resolution
Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1 or higher. Recommended: Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1or higher - Englishtown does not support the Netscape browser. Browser Plugins: Macromedia Flash version 6.0.65 plug-in (available as free download). 7.0.14 recommended Englishtown Virtual Classroom Centra software (automatically installed) is required to use voice-over-IP functionality. Additional software: Adobe Acrobat Reader (for business courses only) General Server-Side Requirements FIREWALLS Englishtown ASP is compatible with all firewall configurations that enable users to access the Internet using ports 80. We recommend for security purposes to open port 1709 for our specific server http://centra.englishtown.com . We also recommend to open port 1935 for our server
http://flash.englishtown.com . This is more secure solution and provides better voice quality than tunneling through port 80.
If Englishtown for LMS is deployed, Englishtown’s school content servers must be able to communicate with the customer’s LMS server over port 80 in order to send student data back to the LMS. PROXY SERVERS Englishtown uses Internet technologies that are fully compatible with proxy servers. If you are using a “stateful inspection” proxy server, MIME ID “launcher.CRND” has to be opened . In order to access Englishtown from a client using a proxy server, port 80 must be open bi-directionally, and port 443 (for HTTPS traffic) should be open inbound. In most cases, this is the standard configuration. In addition, with Microsoft Proxy Server the client should be able to authenticate using Basic Authentication (clear text authentication) or the client workstations must have MS Proxy Client installed to handle the proxy server authentication.
In the event that a client is having trouble accessing Englishtown through a proxy server, it is possible to bypass the proxy server using a static route for the Englishtown servers with the gateway set to be the firewall or Internet router. This will only work, however, if the Proxy server is not set up with separate inside and outside subnets.
Each corporate network has its own special configurations and security issues. Some points of Englishtown site are affected by these configurations, and the possible solutions vary from customer to customer, depending on the firewall and/or proxy configurations. As a general guideline, we can list the following points: -
The network protection systems (“firewalls” and “proxies”) must be configured to allow sound files “download” (wav, asf, .wmf, mp3 etc.). Audio streaming permission is not needed. If necessary allow these to be restricted to *.englishtown.com -
The Englishtown students must have access to all internet sites with names ending on “englishtown.com”, despite its host names or IP addresses. Modern firewall systems usually allow this kind of “domain-based” configuration, instead of old style “IP-based” access configuration. -
“englishtown.com” domain. -
There is no special configurations for “return connections” (connections made from external hosts to internal client workstations). Usually the proxy system itself takes care of this. Firewall systems must allow “established return connections” from Internet to Intranet, as usual. The general guideline is: if you can simply browse Englishtown site pages, you are already done. -
The Englishtown Virtual Classroom (i.e. the Centra Symposium) client is compatible with packet filtering devices. Firewalls do NOT have to be reconfigured to support the EVC. -
audio, application sharing and user interactions. If port 1709 is not available (because, for example, the client is behind a firewall), the EVC client will automatically use tunneling over HTTP (port 80).
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