Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 vs Dell Connectrix MP-7840B
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 is a 1U top-of-rack data center switch providing 48 1/10/25GbE SFP28 downlink ports and 6 40/100GbE QSFP28 uplink ports with wire-rate MACsec and telemetry. 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.
| Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 | Dell Connectrix MP-7840B | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2021 | May 2015 |
| Form factor | 1U | 2U switch |
| Form factor | 1U rackmount | — |
| Ports | 48x 1/10/25GbE SFP28 + 6x 40/100GbE QSFP28 | — |
| Switching capacity | 3.6 Tb/s | — |
| Forwarding rate | 1.4 Bpps | — |
| 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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