techniques described herein may be used to create and manage a network of customer premise equipment devices . cpe devices may be rapidly initialized by integrating a process for initializing the cpe devices with a wireless network with a process for initializing the cpe devices with the cpe network . configuration information for controlling the cpe devices may be managed and stored in a centralized location as machine - readable , computer - programming objects , which may be combined to provide a comprehensive view of the cpe network . network services may be efficiently introduced into the cpe network and managed by creating virtual cpe devices that are associated with the cpe devices of the cpe network .