Cisco 2500 controller with aironet 1600 access point

Hi,
This my first wireless project, and I have a few questions about the installation :
1- some of the access point will be installed in branch offices, connected to the controller through the main MPLS netwrok ( is that possible).
2- If for any reason the connectivity between the AP and the controller get disconnected what will happend to the users connected to the access point.
3- can I have two vlan on the Aironet 1600, the first one to be connected to the controller through the MPLS netwrok and the second for users to public internet.(internet break out).
Thanks,

Yes that setup will work. What the others are trying to explain is authentication if your WAN goes down. If your AP's are setup for FlexConnect and you are indeed using AP groups, (using 802.1x) you need to have a radius server and a backup AD sever to allow for authentication to still happen if the WAN goes down. If you have resources centralized, then when the WAN goes down, everything else goes down and no new authentications will take place and any re-authentications will fail with 802.1x.
Take a look at these links
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.2/configuration/guide/cg_flexconnect.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/7.4/configuration/guides/flexconnect/config_flexconnect_chapter_011.html
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