Anyone have experience with Dell Switching equipment?

[MysticLlama]

I'm looking at planning the rebuild of the network for next year, and I'm trying to decide what to go with.

My first inclination was to go with all Cisco gear, but for what I'm looking at I'm not sure that it's makes sense on a cost level.

After looking at Dell, I could build the following network:

1 primary switch, 24 port 10/100/1000 + 4port fiber
PowerConnet 5224 $1999

1 switch for all of the workstations in the main building:
PowerConnect 3248 48 ports 10/100 + GB Fiber for a link to the primary switch. $899

2 switches for the warehouse area (one for each side)
PowerConnect 3024 24 ports 10/100 + GB Fiber $499

This gives me one central point for all of the switches to link to, the second level by fiber (doesn't really matter for the main building, but the two warehouse ones are quite a distance (we already have a conduit and CAT5 now, but it only makes it to the first one, then the second one comes off of that one), gigabit switching for the server rack, and all manageable.

The total cost only comes to around $4000, which is pretty easy to stomach for a system this nice. But, the question I really want to know, is it going to bite me somehow later?

Key things I'm looking for in this upgrade:
1000BT for the server rack
Fiber if possible for the remote switches (minimum 2)
Managed

 

[lobadobadingdong]

As far as the Dell equipment goes, few people are using them, but dell does have great warranty contracts, if it's cheaper to get the dell with the longest possible warranty than going the Cisco route, go with the dell stuff, otherwise I'd go Cisco. Dell offers 4hr repsonse contracts, that way if you do happen to go down it won't be for very long, Unisys does a large majority of the 4hr respnses for both Dell and Cisco so, odds are you would be getting the same technicians either way. (btw I'm one of those Unisys guys, sub-contractor of course)