Brocade G-Series G720 vs Dell Connectrix MP-7850B
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 MP-7850B is an advanced 1U multiprotocol SAN extension switch based on the Brocade 7850 platform.
| Brocade G-Series G720 | Dell Connectrix MP-7850B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Oct 2020 | Jun 2021 |
| Form factor | 1U | 1U switch |
| 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 | — |
| Port count | — | 24x 32Gb/s Fibre Channel ports + 16x 1/10/25GbE WAN extension ports in 1U |
| Wan features | — | Hardware-accelerated FCIP compression, byte-level deduplication, IPSec encryption, and Adaptive Rate Limiting |
| Switching bandwidth | — | Up to 100 Gbps WAN replication throughput |
| Operating system | — | Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) Gen 7 extension edition |
| Power supply | — | Dual redundant hot-plug power supplies with hot-swappable fan trays |
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