Brocade Extension 7840 vs Cisco MDS 9250i
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Brocade 7840 is a 2U Gen 5 extension switch for replicating Fibre Channel, FICON and IP storage traffic between data centres. The Cisco MDS 9250i was a 2U multiservice fabric switch designed for long-distance SAN extension, backup over IP, and high-performance FCIP routing.
| Brocade Extension 7840 | Cisco MDS 9250i | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Cisco |
| Status | unknown | end-of-sale |
| Released | — | May 2013 |
| Form factor | 2U | 2U rack |
| Ports | 24x 16 Gb/s Fibre Channel/FICON, 16x 1/10 GbE and 2x 40 GbE | — |
| Form factor | 2U rackmount, back-to-front airflow | — |
| Power nominal (W) | 388 | — |
| Power max (W) | 492 | — |
| Weight kg | 20 | — |
| Wan rate | 5 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s by licence, up to 80 Gb/s application throughput with compression | — |
| Port count | — | 40x 16Gbps FC ports, 2x 10GbE FCIP ports, and 8x 10GbE FCoE ports |
| Port speeds | — | 16Gbps, 8Gbps, 4Gbps FC, and 10Gbps Ethernet |
| Protocols | — | Fibre Channel, FCIP, FCoE, and Mainframe FICON |
| Hardware acceleration | — | Hardware compression, encryption, and FCIP tape acceleration |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies |
| Management | — | Cisco DCNM and CLI |
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