Cisco best practices on Channeling.

All,
Can anyone point me to a document that describes Cisco's best practices when it comes to channel settings in a Unified wireless infrastructure. We know that AP's can be configured to communicate over a specific channel or they can be set to "global" ie auto. Meaning that the AP will decide what channel is best to communicate over.
Just looking for the best way to configure this, especially in a building that has hundreds of access points per floor.
Thank you in advance
izzy

The best way to determine this is with a formal site survey...
However take a look at this document.This is a really really good document!
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Mobility/emob41dg/ch3_WLAN.html

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