StarNet is a comprehensive, cost efficient and user friendly PC management system with patent pending user data and privacy protection technology. Through a unified management environment, StarNet provides corporate system administrator management and maintenance solutions for IT assets that reduce IT personnel workload by automating labor intensive and repetitious activities, increases problem solving efficiency and reliability of network environment. These result in reduce cost of infrastructure maintenance, minimize asset losses and increase overall PC management efficiency.

Intel AMT is one of an array of technologies introduced in the Intel® Professional Business Platform to address increasingly complex and costly PC manageability issues. Aiming to remove critical barriers to greater IT efficiency, Intel AMT allows corporate IT departments to remotely discover, heal and protect networked computing assets, regardless of system state. Even with a crashed hard drive or locked operating system, the IT technician can still access the platform for remote asset, inventory, and software management, or remote diagnostics and recovery procedures. A key feature of AMT is Out of Band (OOB) system management, by incorporating OOB, which allows remote management of platforms regardless of power on/off state or OS state into StarNet PC Management System, expands its scope of services and offering IT personnel to apply existing StarNet solutions in otherwise inaccessible conditions.

“StarSoftComm’s corporate direction and product focuses in Total PC Lifecycle Management matches perfectly with Intel’s drive of the next generation PC platform towards efficient PC manageability,” said company CEO, Mr. Ng Ede Phang, “our technology partnership with Intel with respect to Intel AMT and other technologies under Digital Office will greatly enhance our products in many aspects, and more importantly, it will allow us to maintain our leadership position in the China PC management software market for the future.”

Mr. Gregory Byrant, General Manager of Intel Digital Office Platform Division expressed similar sentiment, “Intel supports, and values StarSoftComm, and its StarNet PC Mangement System as one of the early developers of software in taking advantage of the digital office platform.”

Intel AMT enhanced StarNet features include but not limited to:

-      Remotely verify new PC inventories
-      Round the clock IT assets monitoring, including PC chassis tempering alert
-      Off-hour, non-intrusive PC maintenance regardless of PC power on/off state
-      Allows diagnostic & recovery with clean boot from remote PC even under OS malfunction 

StarSoftComm Pte Ltd was founded in Singapore in year 2002 and established a full-subsidiary, StarSoftComm (China) Ltd, (北京软通科技有限责任公司), in Beijing, China in 2003. Over a span of 3 years, StarSoftComm has evolved from a outsourced software developer of PC maintenance modules for PC OEMs, into the leading provider of Total PC Lifecycle Management & Maintenance solutions and services in China, its customers includes Aigo, China Telecom, FounderTech, Greatwall Computer, Haier, Hasee, TCL, Tsinghua TongFang and Tsinghua Uniplendour, among others.

Intel AMT enabled StarNet PC Management System will be available for general release in July 2005.