Patent ID: 6865192

Claim:
A method for initializing a customer premises telecommunications hub having a link to a central office comprising: a) upon power up of the hub, sending a DHCP request to a central office DHCP server, b) sending a configuration file name, a domain name of a configuration file server and an IP address of a domain name server from the central office DHCP server to the hub, c) sending a request for an IP address or a configuration file server from the hub to the domain name server, d) sending the IP address of a configuration file server from the domain name server to the hub, e) sending a request for the configuration file from the hub to the configuration file server, f) sending the configuration file including a control software file name from the configuration file server to the hub, g) parsing the configuration file in the hub; h) sending a request for the control software from the hub to the configuration file server, i) sending the control software from the configuration file serve to the hub, and j) storing the control software in memory in the hub.