Lightyear, the leading provider of enterprise telecom management software, has officially announced the launch of comprehensive product updates.
According to certain reports, the stated assortment of updates makes it possible for Lightyear users to create RFPs for hundreds of network services with ease, more effectively evaluate circuit diversity options, better track static IP address information, and more.
More on the same would reveal how this particular development brings to your disposal a new bulk site internet procurement experience, inclusive of first software solution, built specifically to digitize and optimize Internet circuit procurement across 10, 100, or 1,000+ sites.
As a result, the stated workflow should be able to provide organizations with visibility neccesary for executing on-circuit deployments at scale, while simultaneously ensuring that technical requirements are met and costs fully benefit from bulk discounts.
Taking a deeper view of how the whole thing works, users can basically create a Bulk Site RFP in minutes, and they can do so on the back of circuit request templates, applying standard configurations across a high volume of sites.
Next up, they can optimize vendor strategy and bidding through automated analysis of Lightyear’s proprietary network availability data and pricing intelligence.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the prospect of availing and analyzing exhaustive vendor quotes, with easy and centralized comparison of costs, bandwidth availability, and installation timelines.
In case that wasn’t enough, you can also come expecting to digitally organize and track implementation execution, all with a layer of Lightyear PM support ensuring vendors meet delivery timelines and technical expectations.
Moving on, Lightyear now automatically stores, organizes, and analyzes the KMZ files proposed for existing circuits.. Hence, one can seamlessly visualize circuit paths directly within the platform, compare routes for diversity planning, and identify potential single points of failure across your network.
To go with that, they can also access calculations regarding route overlap percentages, calculations that provide mileage data to help estimate latency characteristics. In fact, during procurement, you can view KMZ paths for competing quotes side-by-side.
For customers managing critical network diversity requirements, such a mechanism effectively eliminates the manual process of downloading files, loading them into Google Earth, and eyeballing overlap.
Turning our attention towards Lightyear’s effort to advance static IP address management, it includes a new structured IP collection system which captures exact static IP details – range / subnet masks, useable addresses, and gateway. They system also comes decked up with validation checks for IP conflicts, proper subnet assignments, and network reachability before configurations go live.
Then, there is a feature focused on real-time gateway address monitoring. You see, the underlying platform is now well-equipped to continuously ping the Gateway IP address and deliver a live response & status of your circuit. This automates the first network check at circuit delivery to enable proactive vendor triage before problems become apparent.
Users can also create, moving forward, service requests programmatically through dedicated API endpoints. They can do so by submitting single service quotes with full location and specification details, or by batching multiple requests across different sites and service types.
Once that part is duly completed, API springs into action and handles the same intelligent carrier selection logic as the web interface, ensuring you get comprehensive coverage for every request.
Staying on the point of API, Lightyear took this opportunity to introduce an expanded API ecosystem, which features new endpoints that enable seamless integration with your existing tools and workflows.
The company also made significant efforts to strengthen service management at scale.
The stated upgrades involves updating service configurations, bandwidth requirements, and technical specifications directly through API calls, with full audit logging of all changes.
They can further programmatically manage location lifecycles, marking sites as active, inactive, planned, or decommissioned with automated workflow triggers.
Hold on, we still have a couple of bits left to unpack, considering we haven’t yet touched upon the promise of custom field automation. Lightyear’s technology effectively achieves that through upgraded metadata and custom fields across your service inventory.
Rounding up highlights would be a a feature to initiate Move, Add, Change, Disconnect (MACD) tickets on services via API, thus bridging and automating workflows from internal change management platforms to Lightyear.