Setting up Push Notification in Lion Server

Dear all,
I am setting up a Lion Server which allows users to enroll their ipad, and want to send out push notification.
After I got a SSL cert, enroll the ipad.However, I could not see any way to push my notification to application in my ipad. So here is my question:
1. Does the APNs set up in the Lion Server Connecting to the gateway.apple.com:2195 or directly connect to the ipad? Because my target environment will be a private network.
2. How can I configure Lion Server so that it could send out push notification? ( either from apple or direcly push )
Thanks

Thanks for your reply,
However,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3947
Referring to the above documents,
" Additionally, the service can be configured to provide Push Notifications to third-party applications which use the ServerNotification "
This really confuse me

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