Allied Telesyn vs Cisco vs netgear

I have to make a decision between Allied Telesyn AT-GS950/24, Cisco
Catalyst Express 500-12TC and Netgear GS716TEU switches. It should be
used as a gigabit backbone.

Two of them should be connected with two optical fibre cables. Four
servers and one 24-port 10/100 switch (workstation connections) would
be connected to each of them. Features required are reliability, speed,
STP. Web interface for management would be nice too. Nothing fancy.
It's a small network, about 50 workstations and before mentioned
servers total. Existing 10/100 switches are Cisco Catalysts 2900 series
and I don't want any interconnection problems. Of course, Cisco would
probably be the easiest choice but Allied Telesyn costs 1/3 of its
price and Netgear costs 1/4.

Therefore, I would like to read some experienced users opinions, and
perhaps save some money.

Thanks in advance.

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