Packet Island Announces SaaS-based VoIP lifecycle Management Solution for Asterisk Deployments

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) October 22, 2006

Packet Island today announced general availability of PacketSmart for Asterisk, a complete VoIP lifecycle management solution for the open source Asterisk PBX.

Packet Islands PacketSmart for Asterisk is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that has been designed to target the VoIP lifecycle management needs of VARs and SMBs deploying Asterisk. The solution is based on Asterisk software agents and purpose-built micro-appliances that work with the highly scalable PacketSmart SaaS platform, hosted at a Tier-1 data center. The Asterisk software agents which are installed on the Asterisk PBX perform continuous monitoring of all VoIP calls terminating at the PBX. The 4x4 micro-appliances are complementary to the software agents, in that unlike the software agents, they can be easily moved around the network to isolate and troubleshoot network issues affecting VoIP quality.

The PacketSmart for Asterisk solution has three distinct functions: