App – AT&T – Setupguide

Use Cases & Value

The AT&T Auto-Attach seamlessly connects AT&T devices onto your wireless network – Providing seamless & easy to use connectivity, replacing/supplementing DAS systems & eliminating dead zones.

Replace/Supplement costly DAS systems

DAS systems provide cellular coverage in “dead zones” of the building – use your existing wireless network to offload traffic to Wi-Fi

Value Delivered: Save money against DAS deployments

Useful to: IT Teams

Leverage Spaces’ existing relationship with one of the world’s largest cellular providers

Spaces has done the hard work for you – simply enable OpenRoaming and sign the usage agreement with AT&T for simple & streamlined deployment

Value Delivered: Save time on carrier negotiation

Useful to: IT Teams

Provide reliable Wi-Fi calling & texting in your building

Site Visitors and Employees utilize the wireless network to place calls & text message

Value Delivered: Eliminate “dead spots” in your building where calling/texting is not possible

Useful to: IT Teams, Site Visitors

Glean valuable insights

Understand & monitor the traffic offloaded to your network using the OpenRoaming dashboard. Capture valuable location analytics of device movement throughout your buildings.

Value Delivered: Centralized

Useful to: IT Teams

Step 1: Complete Cisco Spaces Onboarding Process

Have an account provisioned on the Cisco Spaces platform. If you don’t have an active account, please email spaces@cisco.com
Create user account – Accept invitation from Cisco Spaces & setup password
Onboard wireless network – Connect your network to Cisco Spaces – https://spaces.cisco.com/setupguide/configure-network/
Setup your Location Hierarchy using the best practices guide https://spaces.cisco.com/setupguide/location-hierarchy/

P.S. : The above process needs to be done only once. It is not repeated for every app. Please ignore if already completed.

Step 2: Enable Open Roaming App

OpenRoaming

Simplify guest Wi-Fi access through seamless onboarding.

– Once the Open Roaming app is enabled follow the next steps to deploy AT&T Auto-Attach application for carrier offload.

Step 3: Enable AT&T Auto-Attach Application

Step 3.1: Setup AT&T Auto-Attach application

Navigate to Extend Apps and click on the App Center tile
Select AT&T Auto-Attach
On the top right corner, Click Activate
A pop-up window is displayed, asking you to choose an option to either use an existing account or create a new one. Select the 2nd option to create a new account and Click on Sign Up.
A Contact Request Form is displayed. Fill the form and Click Submit
Once the form is filled, AT&T will contact you via email and setup a meeting
After this meeting, AT&T will provide you with a token which will be used for activating the application in the next steps.

Step 3.2: Activate AT&T Auto-Attach application

Once the account is created, log in to your Cisco Spaces account
Navigate to Extend Apps and Click on the App Center tile
Select AT&T Auto-Attach
On the top right corner, Click Activate
A pop-up window is displayed, choose option 1 stating you have an existing account and Click Continue
Click on Accept Permissions
Next, we need to choose locations for which we want to enable AT&T Auto-Attach carrier offload. You can either check the box Enable for all locations or select specific locations from your location hierarchy and Click Next.
This opens the AT&T Auto-Attach portal. Enter the email under which the account is registered and click Continue.
Enter the token sent by AT&T and Sign in
An email is sent from AT&T to confirm that the AT&T Auto-Attach application is live and you are offloading carrier traffic to your network.

Please take a moment to check if you’re able to successfully setup the app. Click on ‘yes’ to indicate it’s working. And on ‘Not yet’ if you need any assistance.

AT&T Auto-Attach​​

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OpenRoaming

AT&T Auto-Attach

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