ZigBee system management employing a TR-069 enabled CPE proxy

A method of managing a ZigBee network, comprising:

• employing customer premises equipment (CPE) wide area network (WAN) management protocol (CWMP) messaging for management of a ZigBee network;
• translating between the CWMP messaging and ZigBee Device Object (ZDO) messaging;
• communicating the ZDO messaging over a non-ZigBee interface;
• and
• transceiving the ZDO messaging over a ZigBee interface for management of the ZigBee network.

A ZigBee management system, comprising:

• an auto configuration server (ACS) that manages customer premises equipment (CPE) through CPE wide area network (WAN) management protocol (CWMP) messaging;
• a CPE proxy that is coupled to the ACS to provide a protocol translation between the CWMP messaging and ZigBee device object (ZDO) messaging for a ZigBee device;
• and
• a hybrid ZigBee coordinator that is coupled to the CPE proxy, including:
• a ZigBee protocol stack that has a ZigBee MAC layer as an initial layer,
• a non-ZigBee physical layer that is coupled to the ZigBee protocol stack and communicates the ZDO messaging over a non-standard ZigBee interface with the CPE proxy, and
• a ZigBee physical layer that is coupled to the ZigBee protocol stack and the non-ZigBee physical layer and transceives the ZDO messaging for the ZigBee device over a standard ZigBee interface.