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For testing, I would purchase a couple and test them before getting more, as I am not sure if they will work will Dell servers.Īs for the LC patch panel, that is fine, Bidi is LC-based. That said, I found this article that describes BiDi as not being proprietary. BiDi optics usually works for connecting only Cisco switches together or FEXs to parent switches.