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


SALSA (Scalable Application Level Service Architecture)

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.