Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches. They came out to compete with Arista in the 
HFT world, but are useful anywhere latency and/or bursting is an issue:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11541/index.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Hass [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 12:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Matthew Huff
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Outbound drops on 6748
> 
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Huff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > You are likely hitting microbursts. The traffic levels you state are 
> > measured over an
> interval (30 seconds minimum probably). During peak activity you can easy 
> overrun the
> buffers on the 6748 if your upstream data is coming from > 1gb and/or 
> multicast. Since the
> 6748 has the deepest buffer of any linecards of the 6500, you might have to 
> look at an
> Arista or Cisco 30xx aggregation switch that can handle the microbursts.
> 
> Can you write which model of switch you mean writing 'Cisco 30xx
> aggregation switch' ?
> 
> Rob

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