My company is moving into a much larger space and I need to find a solution for our switching needs. The server room is centrally located so I am able to having all switching in the main server room. The number of ports is rather high for the space, currently looking to be around 250 in total

The basic issue is that I need find a good solution for switching for that number of ports. I was attracted to the idea of the modular switch or logical stack.

A couple of questions came up as I compared HP and Netgear switches.

1. What have peoples experience been with full layer 3 switches from Netgear? It seems to be the highest end switch they sell, which has me concerned that is really out of their league.
2. The switching kit for the netgear provides 24gb of throughput between the switches. Is enough bandwidth for an entertainment company dealing with large files on a regular basis? We will have 70 employees at the new space.
3. A third question that has come to mine is if anyone has any question with the Software of the Netgear managed switches. Any thoughts?