System 12 Requirements

Minimum and Recommended System Requirements
The following chart displays recommended Observer Standard, Observer Expert, Observer Suite, and Observer Reporting Server minimum and recommended hardware requirements. As with any high-performance network analysis product, the more RAM, and the faster the processor the better.

Observer 12 System Requirements
	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
	Windows 2000	Windows Vista/XP/2003
100 MB or Lower	1.6 GHz Processor w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
FDDI	1.6 GHz Processor w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
Gigabit (1000Mbit)	1.6 GHz Processor w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM

Observer may run on systems with less power and RAM than those listed above, but Network Instruments does not support configurations with less than the minimum stated requirements.

System 12 Probe Requirements

The following chart displays recommended Probe (Single and Multi) minimum and optimal hardware requirements. As with any high-performance network analysis product, the more RAM, and the faster the processor the better. Note: To utilize multi-sessions and the larger memory buffers available in the Multi-Probe and Expert Probe, 512MB is required at a minimum.

Single-Probe Version 12 System Requirements
	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
	WIndows 2000	Windows XP/2003/Vista
802.11 Wireless	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
10MB Ethernet	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
100MB Ethernet	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
4MB Token Ring	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
16MB Token Ring	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
FDDI	Pentium III w/512MB RAM	Pentium III w/1GB RAM
Gigabit (1000Mbit)	Pentium III w1GB RAM	Pentium III 1.2Ghz w/1GB RAM

Multi-Probe Version 12 System Requirements
	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
	WIndows 2000	Windows XP/2003/Vista
802.11 Wireless	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
10MB Ethernet	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	Pentium 1.4Ghz w/1GB RAM
100MB Ethernet	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
4MB Token Ring	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	Pentium 1.4Ghz w/1GB RAM
16MB Token Ring	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	Pentium 1.4Ghz w/1GB RAM
FDDI	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	Pentium 1.8Ghz w/1GB RAM
Gigabit (1000Mbit)	Pentium III 1.2 Ghz w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
WAN	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM

Advanced Expert Probe Version 12 System Requirements
	MINIMUM	RECOMMENDED
	WIndows 2000	Windows XP/2003/Vista
802.11 Wireless	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
10MB Ethernet	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
100MB Ethernet	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
4MB Token Ring	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
16MB Token Ring	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
FDDI	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
Gigabit (1000Mbit)	Pentium III 1.2 Ghz w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM
WAN	Pentium III 800 w/512MB RAM	2GHz Dual Core Processor w/ 2 GB RAM

Probes may run on systems with less power and RAM than those listed above, but Network Instruments does not support configurations with less than the minimum stated requirements.