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Cisco Smart Business Architecture for Government

Government is tasked to educate, protect, and serve. Yet with multiple competing priorities, including budget constraints, data security, and citizen expectations, this can be a challenge. It is critical to deploy a systematic, thoughtful, and highly secure network approach that will:

  • Help ensure continuity of government
  • Avoid risk of downtime
  • Eliminate complex configurations
  • Avoid hardware or software faults

SBA for Government is designed to grow and evolve with your agency, providing a platform for deploying advanced technologies. Learn more about SBA for Government by reading this At-A-Glance and by viewing a video featuring Jennifer Geisler, Director of Government and Security Industry Marketing at Cisco.

About the SBA for Government System Map

Similar to a local subway map, Cisco developed the SBA system map to help convey where you are in your network journey, and the options for scaling to meet future requirements. Whether you are a midsize or large agency, we can help you achieve your networking goals with the appropriate system route and by using the prescriptive SBA guides. When leading network planning and investment discussions within your organization, use the system map as a strategic asset.


For information on Smart Business Architecture outside of the Government space, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/sba

Borderless Networks

Cisco Borderless Networks helps to enable secure, reliable access to any resources from any location, using any device. SBA helps you transform the Borderless vision into a reality.

Borderless Networks SBA Guides for Large Agencies

Foundation Guides

Additional Design Guides

Additional Deployment Guides

Borderless Network SBA Guides for Midsize Agencies

Foundation Guides

Additional Design Guides

Additional Deployment Guides

Collaboration for Midsize Agencies

The Cisco SBA Collaboration Architecture offers a comprehensive solution that includes network infrastructure, collaboration applications, security, mobility, management applications, and support services.

Foundation Guides

Note: Please read the Unified Communications Manager Foundation Deployment Guide before downloading this tool.

Additional Deployment Guides

Data Center

Data Center for Midsize Agencies

The Cisco SBA Data Center Architecture provides prescriptive recommendations on how to deliver a resilient, flexible, and efficient network for your data center assets. It also lets you incrementally build out a best-practice architecture based on a proven and familiar foundation.

Foundation Guide

Additional Deployment Guides

For Partners

Log in to access tools and resources specifically designed for Channel Partners who want to get the most out of the Cisco Smart Business Architecture (SBA) for midsize and large agencies.


Visit the SBA for Government Archives

Below are the guides from previous releases of Cisco Smart Business Architecture (SBA) for Government. The SBA for Government archives are maintained as a convenient reference for organizations that have implemented the designs in a previous release. For new implementations, it is strongly recommend that you use the current SBA release, available on the Design Guides tab.

SBA for Government Archives

August 2011

August 2011 Series

The August 2011 Series was the SBA for Government release for the second half of the 2011 calendar year.

Borderless Networks SBA Guides for Enterprise

Foundation Guides

Additional Design Guides

Additional Deployment Guides

Borderless Network SBA Guides for Midsize

Foundation Guides

Additional Design Guides

Additional Deployment Guides

Collaboration SBA Guides for Midsize

Foundation Guides

Additional Deployment Guides

Data Center SBA Guides for Midsize

Foundation Guide

Additional Deployment Guides

Partner Guides

H2CY10

H2CY10 Release

The H2CY10 release was the first SBA for Government release and was issued for the second half of the 2010 calendar year.

Borderless Networks for Midsize Agencies

Agencies up to 1,000 users

Collaboration for Midsize Agencies

Data Center for Midsize Agencies

Borderless Networks for Large Agencies

Agencies with up to 10,000 users

SBA Gov Step-by-Step Guidance

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