Scalable Application-Level Service Architecture (SALSA®)
SALSA® is the central management point for the Ipanema’s Autonomic Networking System (ANS™). SALSA brings the power of Ipanema's ANS architecture to the user through automation, distributed processing and web-based interfaces.
SALSA provides:
- Provisioning of global Application Performance Objectives
- Activation of ANS features across the global network
- Management of ANS components (inventory, software upgrades, etc.)
- Real-time views of traffic for trouble-shooting applications and network
- Flexible reporting of application usage and performance
- High level KPIs (AQS, MOS) that support Application SLAs
- Event generation and various interfaces to third-party systems
- Optional integration capabilities with the enterprise IT environment

ANS guarantees application performance using objectives that are globally defined in SALSA and communicated to all agents. These agents form a distributed and autonomic system that constantly evolves to enforce and even exceed Application Performance Objectives.
SALSA periodically collects usage and performance information from ANS agents. This information is consolidated into a synchronous multi-dimensional table that contains details such as application identity, volume, source, destination and quality.
The information is delivered to real-time monitoring, network troubleshooting and alarming tools. Historical views of applications, sites, etc. can be produced for any time period - from minutes to years. Custom reports can focus on specific areas of the network, from a global network view down to any application on a specific site, providing a very flexible and complete visibility on applications behavior over the entire network.
Access to SALSA is performed through a simple Web interface. An iPhone/iPad application is available for anywhere anytime access to business application performance.










