Brocade G-Series G620 vs Dell Connectrix MP-7840B
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 MP-7840B is a 2U multiprotocol SAN extension switch based on the Brocade 7840 platform, engineered for high-performance multi-site disaster recovery and long-distance replication.
| Brocade G-Series G620 | Dell Connectrix MP-7840B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2016 | May 2015 |
| Form factor | 1U | 2U switch |
| 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 | — |
| Port count | — | 24x 16Gb/s Fibre Channel ports + 16x 1/10GbE and 2x 40GbE WAN extension ports in 2U |
| Wan features | — | Hardware-accelerated FCIP compression, byte-level deduplication, IPSec encryption, and Adaptive Rate Limiting |
| Switching bandwidth | — | Up to 80 Gbps WAN replication throughput |
| Operating system | — | Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) extension edition |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-plug power supplies with hot-swappable fan trays |
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