Brocade X6 Director X6-4 vs Cisco MDS 9706
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Brocade X6-4 is the midsize Gen 6 Fibre Channel director, an 8U chassis with four horizontal port or extension blade slots, up to 256 ports of 32 Gb/s and 16 ICL ports. The Cisco MDS 9706 is a 9U 6-slot director-class Fibre Channel switch designed for enterprise SAN backbones.
| Brocade X6 Director X6-4 | Cisco MDS 9706 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Brocade | Cisco |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jul 2016 | Apr 2014 |
| Form factor | 8U | chassis |
| Ports | Up to 256x 32 Gb/s Fibre Channel device ports plus 16x 128 Gb/s UltraScale ICL ports | — |
| Switching capacity | 10.2 Tb/s per chassis | Up to 24.5Tbps system switching capacity |
| Form factor | 8U rackmount, 8 blade slots | — |
| Power typical (W) | 1,548 | — |
| Power max (W) | 2,953 | — |
| Weight kg | 68.95 | — |
| Blades | FC32-48, FC32-64, SX6 and core routing blades CR32-4 | — |
| Chassis form factor | — | 9U 6-slot modular chassis (2 supervisor slots and 4 payload switching slots) |
| Port capacity | — | Up to 192 ports (up to 48 ports per switching line card) |
| Port speeds | — | 64Gbps, 32Gbps, 16Gbps, and 10GbE/40GbE FCIP options |
| Supervisors | — | Dual redundant Cisco MDS 9700 Supervisor-4 or Supervisor-1 modules |
| Power supply | — | Up to 4x redundant hot-swap power supplies |
| Management | — | Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) |
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