Township Council Meeting — Packet

1.7 Network Utilization • The Contractor shall be responsible for monitoring network utilization to ensure the network infrastructure accommodates customer traffic to all of the customers to help reduce operational costs and establish a foundation for future services. • The Contractor shall coordinate with outside entities as needed for establishment and baseline verification of baseline and operational network utilization. The utilization statistics shall be captured primarily using various tools to monitor device interfaces in relation to transmission media capabilities. 1.8 Network Availability • The Contractor shall monitor network availability and compare sample data with the information in the commercial service provider circuit availability reports for verification and validation of outage statistics. 1.9 Network Trend Analysis • The Contractor shall perform network trend analysis to compile daily and/or longer-term reports for various network traffic areas of interest. These reports shall supply both generalized and specific information about targeted areas and shall provide useful snapshots of information. These reports shall include but are not limited to daily and weekly reports covering various error conditions, workload (i.e. CPU) and memory and network utilization. Customized trend analysis shall be provided based on current monitoring capabilities on an as-needed basis. 1.10 Network Capacity Planning • The Contractor shall perform data collection to assist in network capacity planning. Network usage and configuration information shall be used with performance statistics to reflect current and long-term bandwidth utilization. This information shall be used to better estimate future requirements based on application, organizational or technological changes as well as adjustments to provide improved cost/benefit of current resources. 11