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SALSA - THE PLATFORM FOR INDUSTRIALIZED MANAGED SERVICES
With SALSA (Scalable Application Level Service Architecture), the benefits of Ipanema's Autonomic Networking System can be delivered by Telcos and Managed Service Providers to their enterprise customers through a variety of application-centric services. SALSA has been deployed with success by the largest, most demanding global Telcos and MSPs and is considered as the benchmark for application-centric services delivery.
SALSA features include:
- A dedicated management platform for general, productized rollouts with a clustering architecture that can start small and scale up to the entire customer base of the largest service providers.
- Modular components to support delivery of a variety of services that leverage the different functions of the Ipanema System.
- Compatibility with a variety of operating systems and virtualization techniques
- Support of high-availability architectures
- Simple and smooth integration with providers’ IT architectures.
SALSA platform components include:
- ip|uniboss: the SALSA component that unifies high-level provisioning and management operations across all customer domains. It supports “one-touch provisioning” for new customers, service templates and more.
- ip|boss Server: the back-end building block for day-to-day operations of the system, simplifying the control of multiple customer. It manages all aspects of the Ipanema System and collects the visibility metrics.
- ip|boss Portal: a web-based interface into the ip|boss Server features
- ip|reporter Server: the back-end building block of the reporting system, providing historical reporting functions for multiple customer domains.
- ip|reporter Portal: a web-based interface to ip|reporter Server, which can be customized with both service provider and end customer branding.
Through the SALSA platform, the Ipanema System’s benefits can be delivered “as a service” to thousands of customer organizations using a single, unified operations center. Network operations are simplified and application-centric services are more profitable for service providers and more efficient for their customers.
