Our business is connected to various outside facilities across town via fiber. We lease the fiber, and have Cisco ASA (or PIX) firewalls on each end with a VPN tunnel connecting our private networks.
For raw network speed I use iperf in a shell. For testing AFP, I use a combination of AJA System Test and Helios Lan Test. AJA System Test will initially only offer local harddrives to test against, ...