Two wireless LANs?

Hi all,
I recently picked up a 2504 wireless controller and two 3702i APs. It is all for my home, and I will be connecting it all soon. I simply want to create two wireless networks; one for "production" and one "guest" network, which will allow internet access and nothing more. I'd like that to be for phones, iPads, game consoles, etc...
I've found that many of those types of devices don't work on the 5GHz band, so I would like to make the production network 5GHz while the guest network would be 2.4GHz.
My first question is... Can I do this?
My second question is... If so, how?
And my last question is... How do I ensure that devices connected to guest have no access to the production network?
Any other questions I should be asking?
Thanks!

yup!
1) On the WLC create 2 dynamic interfaces and give them each an IP address. These very interfaces are the gateway between the wired and wireless lan controller. Then you can tie the dynamic interfaces to WLC ports.
2) On the switch you will want to add these 2 vlans and connect them to the respected ports.
See the config guide for step by step. Its not really hard.
You can configure WLANs one for production and one for guest. You can even do your own personal guest page of you like. Check out WebAuth on a cisco WLC.
As for securing the guest from the production. On the wired side SVI you can put a simple ACL.
Hope this helps

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