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Baseline network assessments and benchmarking are two best-practices organizations should embrace when preparing to add applications to their distributed enterprise. The baseline assessment helps prepare the network for the new application by showing where organizations need to increase or decrease bandwidth, add optimization tools, or upgrade switches/routers. The benchmarking process provides baseline metrics that enable organizations to document success or failure once the new application starts running over the WAN. These two processes help with capacity planning, network readiness, and ongoing performance management. Listen to this podcast that details how to successfully benchmark application performance.