Customer premises equipment alternate path architecture for configuration and troubleshooting

摘要

A communication system is provided. The communication system includes a customer premises equipment, a wireless device, and a configuration server. The customer premises equipment can provide communication services to a local area network and can also communicate with the Internet. The wireless device has access to the Internet and can communicate with the customer premises equipment. The configuration server has access to the Internet and can communicate with the customer premises equipment to configure and maintain the customer premises equipment via a first path that includes the Internet and a modem and via a second path that includes the Internet and the wireless device.