See below for detail on each component of today's release.
End-to-End Bulk Site Internet Procurement Workflow
Large-scale circuit deployments just got dramatically simpler. Lightyear's new bulk site internet procurement experience represents the first software solution built specifically to digitize and optimize Internet circuit procurement across 10, 100, or 1,000+ sites.
For Enterprise IT Teams, this workflow finally provides the organization and visibility to execute on circuit deployments at scale, all while ensuring technical requirements are met and costs fully benefit from bulk discounts. Why would you ever return to spreadsheets and emails after experiencing this?
- Create a Bulk Site RFP in minutes, leveraging circuit request templates to apply standard configurations across a high volume of sites
- Optimize vendor strategy and bidding through automated analysis of Lightyear's proprietary network availability data and pricing intelligence
- Receive and analyze exhaustive vendor quotes, with easy and centralized comparison of costs, bandwidth availability, and installation timelines
- Digitally organize and track implementation execution, all with a layer of Lightyear PM support ensuring vendors meet delivery timelines and technical expectations
Embedded Support of Circuit KMZs
As the importance of uptime has grown, network diversity analysis has grown more complex and time-consuming for network engineers. Our new embedded support for circuit KMZs transforms how you evaluate and organize circuit routes within both Procurement and Network Inventory modules.
When carriers provide KMZ files for proposed or existing circuits, Lightyear now automatically stores, organizes, and analyzes these files alongside your service data. You can visualize circuit paths directly within the platform, compare routes for diversity planning, and identify potential single points of failure across your network.
The system calculates route overlap percentages and provides mileage data to help estimate latency characteristics. During procurement, you can view KMZ paths for competing quotes side-by-side, making it easy to evaluate not just pricing but also physical network diversity. This visual intelligence becomes part of your permanent service record, accessible anytime from Network Inventory.
For customers managing critical network diversity requirements, this eliminates the manual process of downloading files, loading them into Google Earth, and eyeballing overlap. The analysis happens automatically, and the results integrate directly into your decision-making workflow.
Resilient Static IP Address Management
Static IP address management gets a comprehensive upgrade with structured collection, automated validation, and real-time monitoring that eliminates the guesswork from network configuration.
Static IP Collection & Validation: Our new structured IP collection system captures exact Static IP details - range / subnet masks, useable addresses, and gateway - in the correct architecture that they are being delivered. Built-in validation checks for IP conflicts, proper subnet assignments, and network reachability before configurations go live.
Real-Time Gateway Address Monitoring: The platform now continuously pings the Gateway IP address, delivering a live response & status of your circuit. This automates the first network check at circuit delivery, enabling proactive vendor triage before problems become apparent.
Expanded Lightyear API: Deeper Integration Possibilities
Our API ecosystem continues to mature with powerful new endpoints that enable seamless integration with your existing tools and workflows.
Quote Request Automation
Creating service requests programmatically is now possible through dedicated API endpoints. You can submit single service quotes with full location and specification details, or batch multiple requests across different sites and service types. The API handles the same intelligent carrier selection logic as our web interface, ensuring you get comprehensive coverage for every request.
Service Management at Scale
- Circuit Detail Management: Update service configurations, bandwidth requirements, and technical specifications directly through API calls, with full audit logging of all changes.
- Site Status Orchestration: Programmatically manage location lifecycles - marking sites as active, inactive, planned, or decommissioned with automated workflow triggers.
- Custom Field Automation: Bulk update metadata and custom fields across your service inventory, enabling integration with asset management and configuration management databases.
- Open Carrier MACDs: Initiate Move, Add, Change, Disconnect (MACD) tickets on services via API, bridging and automating workflows from internal change management platforms to Lightyear
To learn more about each of these product releases and see them in action, attend our live webinar on September 16th at noon ET.
If you'd like to learn more about how Lightyear might benefit your enterprise, request a demo with our sales team today.
About Lightyear
Lightyear (https://lightyear.ai) is the only digital workflow and system of record platform that unlocks efficiency across the full lifecycle for enterprise telecom services, revolutionizing the telecom experience to drive material time and cost savings. Lightyear's Procurement platform automates RFP creation, quoting, install management, and more for internet, WAN, voice, and colocation services, reducing time spent on procurement materially while network intelligence and pricing data ensures enterprises select the optimal solution at the lowest cost. Lightyear's Network Inventory Manager creates a digital system of record for enterprise networks, tracking 30+ data points per service (static IPs, contract details, account IDs) and automating lifecycle management workflows such as MACD ticketing and renewal re-shopping. Lightyear's Bill Consolidation software offers enterprises one consolidated bill for all telecom services, eliminating the headache of tracking invoices and handling audits while avoiding service disruptions.
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