New office build out | router recommendation

I'm currently helping build out a new office and trying to find the best router for the job. My main concern is ensuring it can handle the WAN line(s) we have coming in. When I looked at the 2921 series it seems to have a throughput max of 75Mbps and with our lines totalling 800Mbps I'm wondering how 'big' of a router we'll need.
Here's some of the details that should give a rough idea of our needs. Our requirements are pretty basic at the moment but we would like to start to build our a reliable network infra as we're quiclkly expanding the business (20 -> 60 employees in 6mo thus far)
300Mbps 1:1 - BT Fibre
100Mbps 1:1 - Virgin
100 person max office size
2-3 VPNs into datacentre's
eventual deployment of our own VoIP network (currently managed by buildings VoIP)

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Attachment has good performance information for the current ISRs.
If you're going to have WAN Ethernet handoffs, L3 switch might be an option.
PS:
BTW, the 7301 you mention is 1 Mpps (and a 7201 is 2 Mpps).

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