Jim, thank you for your reply, the step by step link is a great help.

But, at this point lets not talk about Availability Groups, just one server in Miami and the other in Atlanta, both with SQL 2012, now questions:

1.- Can I set up Always-On in both servers?. and have 1 or 2 databases with Always-on?

2.- Does Always on uses the "endpoints" as Mirroring?

Kevin, also thanks for responding, but can you also address the 2 above questions please?.

At this point, I am installing SQL 2012 on 2 different windows servers (NO CLUSTERING involved here), just plain and simple.

Of course later on we might go to CLustering...

Appreciate yout help.

Pablo