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title: "About 8x8 Admin Console"
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canonical: "help.8x8.com/about-8x8-admin-console"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# About 8x8 Admin Console

Welcome to **8x8 Admin Console**. **8x8 Admin Console** is an online portal for 8x8 account administrators to manage their company's phone system from any desktop.

Using **8x8 Admin Console**, phone system administrators can:

- Claim and manage numbers.
- Manage **8x8 Work** users and admins.
- Manage your phone system features, such as automatic call handling, call queue, ring groups, and music on hold.
- Assign active phone numbers to 8x8 services.
- Check device inventory.
- Manage sites and phone systems.
- Open and track support cases.

## System requirements

You require the following systems to operate:

**Supported operating systems**

- Microsoft XP or newer
- Mac OS 10.5.4 (Leopard®) or newer

**Supported browsers**

The latest versions of the Google Chrome browser are supported for all operating systems.

**Required firewall ports**

- 80 TCP (http)
- 443 TCP (https)

**Minimum system requirements**

| Windows XP | Windows 7 and Vista | Mac |
| --- | --- | --- |
| - Pentium 4 1.3 GHz/AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or newer - 512 MB of RAM | - Pentium 4 1.3 GHz/AMD Athlon XP 1500+ or newer - 1 GB of RAM | - Powercomputer G4/G5 or newer - 512 MB of RAM |

**Bandwidth recommendations**

- Cable modem: DSL or better
- Minimum: 1.5 Mbps down and 384 kbps up