Brocade G-Series G720 vs Dell Connectrix ED-DCX7-8B
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Brocade G720 is a 64-port Gen 7 Fibre Channel switch engineered for high-throughput autonomous SAN fabrics, delivering 64Gb/s FC connectivity across 56 SFP+ and 8 SFP-DD ports. The Dell Connectrix ED-DCX7-8B is the ultimate 14U 8-slot Gen 7 Fibre Channel director built on the Brocade X7-8 platform.
| Brocade G-Series G720 | Dell Connectrix ED-DCX7-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| Form factor | 1U | 14U director chassis |
| Form factor | 1U rackmount | — |
| Ports | 56x 64Gb FC SFP+ + 8x 2x64Gb FC SFP-DD (64 total ports) | — |
| Switching capacity | 4.096 Tb/s full duplex | — |
| Latency | < 460 ns cut-through | — |
| Slot count | — | 8 horizontal port blade slots + 2 Control Processor (CP) slots + 2 Core Routing (CR) slots in 14U |
| Port count | — | Up to 512x 64Gb/s Fibre Channel ports or 256x 256Gb/s QSFP links |
| Switching bandwidth | — | 30.72 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth |
| Operating system | — | Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) Gen 7 director edition |
| Power supply | — | Quad redundant hot-plug power supplies with redundant high-volume blower assemblies |
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