There are many factors, which can affect the performance of any network infrastructure. In today’s large scale industrial networks, performance can be affected by internal factors, such as network design issues, and external factors, such as applications overhead, congestion and network throughput. It is therefore extremely important to manage the network infrastructure as a key component with emphasis being placed on usable network throughput and utililization to measure actual performance.

Before any infrastructure changes can occur, it is necessary to obtain a baseline, or base knowledge of the health of the network.

ICT can provide network baselining and provide you with the following:

• Physical Connectivity
• Current Network Utilization
• Peak Utilization
• Protocol Usage
• Average Throughput