Federal government agencies—including those serving in defense, intelligence, or civilian roles—are responsible for ensuring national security and meeting citizens' demands for services while simultaneously spending taxpayer dollars wisely. They must also find ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Given these challenges, federal government agencies are increasing the demands on their networking infrastructures.

Today's federal government agencies require highly reliable, secure, and flexible networking infrastructures in order to:

• Provide secure wireless networking to improve staff productivity
• Provide data acquisition and analytics for real-time decision-making and actionable intelligence
• Support SDN and intelligent networks
• Communications while reducing costs
• Consolidate data centers and virtualize infrastructure for greater IT agility
• Transition to cloud computing to more rapidly embrace powerful technology

Brocade networking solutions can help federal government agencies meet their IT infrastructure goals by providing:

• The high performance, reliability, and availability required to support a mobile network for anywhere, anytime wireless access
• End-to-end network security to control data access
• Network convergence solutions to manage wired/wireless network traffic on a single network
• A full range of professional services and technical support to maximize efficiency
• Flexibility and choice through a vast partner ecosystem, offering solutions based on open standards

Federal government agencies can leverage Brocade solutions to simplify network management and maximize taxpayer dollars—while increasing services and information transparency to citizens.