Automatic provisioning of customer premises equipment

An apparatus comprising:

• a processor;
• a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
• logic for receiving a customer specification of network requirements (CSNR) exclusively specified for a customer premises equipment (CPE);
• logic for provisioning a class of service (COS) template exclusively created for providing an intended operation of the CPE based at least on the CSNR;
• logic for storing the COS template and an identity of the CPE as one job assignment;
• logic for receiving, from the CPE, a signal comprising the identity of the CPE being plugged into a network link at customer premises for a first time;
• and
• logic for downloading to the CPE, based at least on the received identity of the CPE matching the one job assignment, service information for the ZTP of the intended operation of the CPE, the service information including at least the COS template information.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining code for:

• receiving a customer specification of network requirements (CSNR) exclusively specified for a customer premises equipment (CPE);
• provisioning a class of service (COS) template exclusively uniquely created for providing an intended operation of the CPE based at least on the CSNR;
• storing the COS template and an identity of the CPE as one job assignment;
• receiving, from the CPE, a signal comprising the identity of the CPE being plugged into a network link at customer premises for a first time;
• and
• downloading to the CPE, based at least on the received identity of the CPE matching the one job assignment, service information for the ZTP of the intended operation of the CPE, the service information