Putting together a system from scratch

Hello, I am trying to put something together for our school of about 200 students. We are currently using household APs in our school building which are not working well at all. I've looked around a bit and so far I thinking about the 1142 APs and a 2504 controller. I'm not too familiar with Cisco and I wondering what other people have done or would recommend. I'm not sure how the controller works and how it needs to be connected. Any other suggestions for someone who is not familiar with controller based wireless would be appreciated.
Thanks for your time

For schools, many of what I have deployed were 5508's. This was because of access point count. The 2504 supports up to 75, so if you will have more than 76, then you need a 5508. The 5508 can support up to 500. The 1142 are end if sale and I would suggest the 2602's. I have schools the have the 1142's but are replacing them with either the 2602's, 3602's or the new 3702's. It depends on your budget. You can still probably purchase refurb 1142's from refurb store, there are many out there.
You should really speak with your local Cisco SE and or a Cisco Var when it comes to how you should design it. There are so many things that can change a design, especially if you require Apple TV's, guest access, just to name a few.
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Axel, thanks for the link...It was an informative read..
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mhertz wrote:
luvfree wrote:[...].
I'm going to reinstall anyway so why not wait until the iso doesn't pacstrap the old initscripts and sysvinit?
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I'm certainly not going to leave this install on with 4 installed desktop environments.[...]
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once I settle on which one to keep I'll do just that.
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I'm just keeping my eye out for an iso without the old initscripts pacstapped to begin with.
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> We currently have two SAP ECC 5.0 Instances over DB2 9.7/AIX 6.1 on a same server (WS01), and now we are splitting this, by leaving Development box on WS01 and moving QA to WS08
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> What would you think/recommend the best approach to fulfill this requirement
>
> Im taking in mind such things like, transport system, RFC connections, Database and SAP Profiles
>
> What steps would you think are mandatory to have QA system fully working on a brand new server
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> Is an option to install an system from scratch on that new server (WS08), and they restore the actual database and perform the post processing steps just like a refresh, and then adding that system to the actual ECC landscape
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Having then got widows installed.
Seperate project to
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