Education License Program Includes:

The Real Education Licensing Program is based on the number of licensed seats within your Institution. Simply advise us on the number of seats that you wish to license and you will be able to choose the required number of licenses from the following components:

• Helix Universal Unlimited Server
  Our fully featured high performance discrete streaming media server, providing your institution with unlimited streaming capacity, allowing you to provide digital audio & video to students, whether they are within the institution or connecting via the internet from home. Helix Universal Server streams multiple media formats including Real Media, Quick Time, MPEG-4 and Windows Media. You are able to use as many licenses as required in order to reach your students on your network.
• RealProducer Plus
  A multiple user license, providing the industries highest quality encoding of audio & video sources into Real Media formats for broadcasting through the Helix Universal Server. RealProducer operates directly with digital video cameras and supports multiple file types including MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and AVI.
• RealPlayer Enterprise Manager
  The Professional RealPlayer, providing a fully managed media player environment featuring:
  • Central management and control of all RealPlayer Enterprise players.
  • Silent installation process and customisable installers.
  • Lockable Desktop Environment.
  • No advertising or pop-ups.
  • CD Burning and copying capabilities removed.
  • Updates restricted to a central location within your LAN behing the firewall.
  • RealPlayer Enterprise Manager is Licensed up to the number of seats purchased.
• Helix Forward Proxy
  Our high performance caching and stream splitting server software, providing your institution with unlimited caching and live streaming capacity. Helix Forward Proxy will maximise your internet connection by caching frequently used on-demand content and spitting live streams, such as live video broadcasts from other Universities, Research Institutions and Internet based media rich content resourses. You are able to use as many licenses as required in order to reach your students on your network.

Features:

• Video Learning Environments - Reach your students wherever they are located, by offering a contextually rich video & audio experience via your intranet or website. Educators around the World are easily creating live or on-demand lectures and lesson plans that combine video & audio with PowerPoint Presentations, images, web pages as well as knowledge retention testing by incorporating on-screen questionnaires, email, chat or polling. RealNetworks solutions integrate with the leading Virtual Learning Environments from Blackboard or WebCT.
• Video Library Server - Eliminate the need to distribute physical copies of VHS videos, audio cassette tapes, CDs or DVDs to staff and students by digitally encoding your audio & video based material and storing them centrally on a video library server powered by RealNetworks Helix Universal Server. Students and staff will be able to access your media rich video & audio based learning material from the Intranet or remotely via the Internet. Your digital media is then a simple click away with RealPlayer Enterprise.
• Exam Preparation - Improve exam results and knowledge retention by recording classroom lectures and making these available to students for on-demand viewing and revision aids. Recorded lectures are easily enhanced using the RealNetworks Content Publishing solutions allowing synchronisation of audio & video with supplemental materials like PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and web pages. Knowledge retention is easily tested by incorporating on-screen questionnaires, polling and chat options.

Minimum System Requirements:

RealProducer

• Windows 98 SE, ME, NT4 SP6*, 2000, and XP (Windows 2000 or XP recommended. *Latest Windows Service Pack recommended for any Windows version. Service Pack 6 required for Windows NT 4)
  
• Linux 2.2, 2.4 with Glibc 2.1 or greater
  
• RealProducer - Preview is compatible with the following Linux distributions: Mandrake 7.2 or higher, RedHat 6.0 or higher, Slackware 7.0 or higher, SUSE 6.2 or higher, Debian 2.2r3 or higher
  
• Minimum hardware requirements: Pentium III, 400 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM
  
• Recommended hardware requirements: Pentium III or 4 (or similar) processor, 2 GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM or greater

Minimum system configuration can encode low action video at 320x240 @ 15fps to a 28 kbps and 56 kbps SureStream file (default settings) from a live device using the command line application without any degradation in encoding complexity or frame rate.

Recommended system configuration can encode high action video at 320x240 @ 30fps to a 1.50 Mbps SureStream file (default settings) from a live device using the command line application without any degradation in encoding complexity or frame rate.

RealPlayer Enterprise Manager

• Internet Explorer 5.x or later or Netscape 4.7x or later
• Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or later, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Linux 2.2 (glib c6)
• Sun Solaris 2.7, Sun Solaris 2.8
• HP-UX
• OSF 5.1
• AIX 4.3

Helix Universal Proxy

• Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 (Workstation or Server), Linux kernel version 2.4.18, gLibC 2.2.4, FreeBSD 4.0 or 4.5 operating systems
• Sun Solaris 2.8 - 32 bit operating systems
• IBM AIX 4.3 or 5L operating systems
• HP UX 11.0 or 11i 32 bit operating system
• Compaq Tru64 Unix 5.1 or 5.1A operating systems.

RealNetworks Helix Servers

LINUX - RHEL 4.0 (KERNEL 2.6)*

• Processor: Intel P4 2.4 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB per processor (Min), 1 GB/proc (recommended)
• Hard disk: 100 MB (install) + Log + Media space

*Note: Clones of RHEL 4.0 are not officially supported. User discretion is advised.

WINDOWS 2003

• Processor: Intel P4 2.4 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB per processor (Min), 1 GB/proc (recommended)
• Hard disk: 100 MB (install) + Log + Media space

SOLARIS 8 (NATIVE) & SOLARIS 9

• Processor: Ultra Sparc III 1.5 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB per processor (Min), 1 GB/proc (recommended)
• Hard disk: 100 MB (install) + Log + Media space

Educational Pricing:

Annual License: £2.00 per seat per year inc. Silver Upgrade & Support
Perpetual License: £5.00 per seat inc. 1 year Silver Upgrade & Support

Pricing / Licensing Notes:
Licensing is based upon the number of seats to be deployed. For Universities the minimum purchase requirement is 500 seats. For all other institutions the minimum purchase requirement is 250 seats. Number of licenses must be specified at the time of ordering. Institutions that qualify are Campus based degree-granting educational institutions, K-12 Primary, Middle or High-School, School District or Local Education Authority. The license allows delivery to the number of seats you have purchased the license for, which includes staff, full and part-time registered students.

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