The current plan is recycle a managed GigE switch (which is actually a Netgear one, a 24 port Cisco GigE is incredibly expensive) for the 'core' but there seems to be a habit in the company of buying the cheapest Cisco 24 port switch available for office machines. It doesn't seem to make any sense since the office machines are probably the least important ones, the channel certainly won't drop off the air if they can't read their email!