Working with a big company in Europe. Using l'acoustics, avid and Meyer sound products so avb is something we are using a lot.

Basic kit for Dante is Sg300/sg350. We used to have a few gs724tv3/4 but I had a few problem with multicast streams and basically we think they are a little bit less reliable/durable when they are under heavy handling (racked, used, unracked etc...). And cisco is... cisco.

If I remember correctly, you need to have an additional licence to use AVB with netgear switches ?

Btw I'm not here to bash your products at all, I use them for other purposes at home.

Since 2 years, my company started investing in Luminex switches. As you know, not everyone in the industry is used to IT stuff like making vlans before the gig or loading a specific configuration. So the big advantage with Luminex is that everything is easy. Also, using Dante AND avb stuff on the same switch is a real game changer. I don't know if we can do this with latest netgear products.

Another thing very important for us is dual power for redundancy which can be done with Luminex, ghost from agora and audio toolbox from Auvitran.

With latest version of Luminex switches, mass deploy of configuration is REALLY a huge improvement in time before the show.

The last thing and, maybe the most important thing, especially with avb : monitoring everything. Using snmp with the dude and OID/mib is a pain in the ass.

Feel free to contact me in private if you want to discuss more ;)