http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069
Found this option in a wimax-cpe today …
A lot of ADSL modems have them in the UK now. You plug your “blank” modem into the phone socket and the ISP sets up your modem for you with your username and password programmed into the modem from the ISP end. Nice! http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/hardware/tr69faq.shtml
Does help for first time configuration but is not the same.
With tr69 we would not need to open the box of the cpe.
Just register the serial number and hand out the cpe.
We’ve some hundred cpes out there and deploy 1-2 each
day. Seeing your new cpe we’ll have to exchange a lot of
RB1xx.
Couldnt you accomplish this with a script? Install the router with a script scheduled that when it boots it always grabs its configuration. You should do a sanity check and then reconfigure the router with received settings. Maybe pull the config with tftp or something. Run a cpe management vlan that they get into when the unit first boots or something - there are many ways to do this.