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Cisco Preferred Architecture for
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Preface
Preface
Cisco Preferred Architectures provide recommended deployment models for specific market segments based on common
use cases. They incorporate a subset of products from the Cisco Collaboration portfolio that is best suited for the targeted
market segment and defined use cases. These deployment models are prescriptive, out-of-the-box, and built to scale with
an organization as its business needs change. This prescriptive approach simplifies the integration of multiple system-
level components and enables an organization to select the deployment model that best addresses its business needs.
Documentation for Cisco Preferred Architectures
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Cisco Preferred Architecture (PA) design overview guides help customers and sales teams select the appropriate
architecture based on an organization’s business requirements; understand the products that are used within the
architecture; and obtain general design best practices. These guides support sales processes.
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Cisco Validated Design (CVD) guides provide details for deploying components within the Cisco Preferred
Architectures. These guides support planning, deployment, and implementation (PDI).
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Cisco Collaboration Solution Reference Network Design (SRND) guide provides detailed design options for Cisco
Collaboration. This guide should be referenced when design requirements are outside the scope of Cisco Preferred
Architectures.
About This Guide
The Cisco Preferred Architecture for Midmarket Collaboration design overview is for:
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Sales teams that design and sell collaboration solutions
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Customers and sales teams who want to understand the overall collaboration architecture, its components, and
general design best practices
Readers of this guide should have a general knowledge of Cisco Voice, Video, and Collaboration products and a basic
understanding of how to deploy these products.
This guide simplifies the design and sales process by:
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Recommending products in the Cisco Collaboration portfolio that are built for the midmarket and that provide
appropriate feature sets for this market
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Detailing a collaboration architecture and identifying general best practices for deploying in midmarket organizations
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Including a sample Bill of Materials (BoM) with products that target the midmarket price point
For detailed information about configuring, deploying, and implementing this architecture, consult the related CVD
documents on the Design Zone for Collaboration.