The Network Baseline Service by Friendware Security Solutions offers your organization a thorough understanding of your enterprise, multi protocol router network. The service is ideal for assessing the current performance of your network prior to new application implementations, or network security implementations for determining whether wide area and other network services are properly optimized.  The service uses a set of diagnostic tools that systematically measure and report on key network resource metrics. The measurements are analyzed and reviewed by a network analyst, who will assess the overall health and bandwidth usage of your network. 
The analyst also develops a set of recommendations for fine-tuning the performance and capacity of your network. The Network Baseline Service takes approximately five weeks to complete on larger networks and can vary for small and mid size networks. The process starts by identifying the network devices ? routers, servers, switches and managed hubs ? to be analyzed and their IP addresses, along with an inventory of the wide area network services to be studied. A probe is then installed at your site to collect network performance data. The probe performs two weeks of continuous monitoring in order to capture time of day and day of week traffic patterns. After completing the data collection, the analyst performs an in depth analysis.  Friendware Security Solutions' 

1. Device/Link reliability, availability, utilization, error rates 
2. Network equipment resource utilization information, including CPU usage and buffers 
3. Wide area network services utilization, frame relay port/PVC and private lines 
4. Identifying key applications and servers using network resources. 
5. Round trip delay / response time