Brocade G-Series G620 vs Dell Connectrix ED-DCX6-8B
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Brocade G620 is a high-density 64-port Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN switch providing 48 32Gb FC SFP28 ports and 4 128Gb QSFP28 Q-Flex ports in an ultra-dense 1U footprint. The Dell Connectrix ED-DCX6-8B is a premier 14U 8-slot enterprise director chassis based on the Brocade X6-8 platform.
| Brocade G-Series G620 | Dell Connectrix ED-DCX6-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2016 | Sep 2016 |
| Form factor | 1U | 14U director chassis |
| Form factor | 1U rackmount | — |
| Ports | 48x 32Gb FC SFP28 + 4x 128Gb FC QSFP28 | — |
| Switching capacity | 2 Tb/s full duplex | — |
| Latency | < 700 ns locally switched | — |
| Slot count | — | 8 horizontal port blade slots + 2 Control Processor (CP) slots + 2 Core Routing (CR) slots in 14U |
| Port count | — | Up to 512x 32Gb/s Fibre Channel ports or 256x 128Gb/s QSFP links |
| Switching bandwidth | — | 20.48 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth |
| Operating system | — | Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) enterprise director edition |
| Power supply | — | Quad redundant hot-plug power supplies with dual redundant blower modules |
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