I have a feeling that when it comes to enterprise-level routing and switching that Cisco is held in pretty high regard. But if you were going to put a 24 or possibly a 48 port 10/100 switch with a couple of GBit copper uplinks in a new office, would you shell out what is looking like £800 for a Cisco device or would you just grab a 3Com or Netgear offering for a third of the price?