Getting To Know The Opera™ Product Family; Opera™ Measurement System - OPTICOM OPERA - V 3.5 User Manual

C H A P T E R 1 : I N T R O D U C T I O N
1.2 Getting to Know the OPERA™ Product
Family
1.2.1 OPERA™ Measurement System
The OPERA™ Measurement System comprises both hardware requirements and
software. It comes completely pre-configured. It is available as a portable and a
rackmounted version. The rackmounted version is fully compatible with the
portable version and not described separately. In addition there exists a
worstation type version which is not available anymore, but still supported and
described in this manual.
Workstation Version
The basic configuration of the Workstation Version of OPERA™ includes a
completely equipped high performance PC system with selected components
and the OPERA™ framework software. If assessment of speech quality is
required, the Telecom configuration is provided. Audio quality can be
measured using the broadcast configuration. Combinations of telecom and
broadcast configurations of the OPERA™ Measurement System are also
available.
For a detailed description of what is included in the delivery, please refer to
Section 3.2.1.
Figure 1.1 shows a photograph of the OPERA™ Workstation.
Figure 1.1: The Workstation version of OPERA™
Portable PC Version
The basic configuration of the Portable PC Version of OPERA™ includes a
completely equipped portable high performance Dual Processor PC system
with selected components and the OPERA™ framework software.
As with the Workstation Version, there are different configurations available, the
Telecom version for speech quality assessment, and the Broadcast configuration
for measuring audio quality. Both configurations come pre-configured for live
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