Drawing on 100,000+ RFPs and 1,000,000+ price quotes, Lightyear's second annual State of Connectivity report delivers vendor-agnostic benchmarks and trend analysis across DIA, broadband, WAN, and data center markets.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 19, 2026 / Lightyear, the leading provider of enterprise telecom management software, today released its second annual State of Connectivity Report. This comprehensive report draws on Lightyear's proprietary dataset, spanning 100,000+ RFPs and more than 1,000,000 price quotes, to deliver timely, vendor-agnostic insights on the enterprise telecom industry and pricing trends.

"Welcome to our second annual State of Connectivity report. To those returning from last year - thank you. Your continued interest is what pushes us to go deeper, share better data, and make this more useful every year. The connectivity landscape moves fast, and we hope this report helps your team stay ahead of it."- Dennis Thankachan, CEO & Co-Founder, Lightyear

The 2026 State of Connectivity report examines:

• How AI is reshaping transport and data center strategy

• The evolving 400G connectivity market

• What "NaaS" actually looks like now that carriers are deploying it at scale

• How satellite and 5G are evolving as enterprise connectivity options

• Pricing and bandwidth trends across DIA, WAN, data centers, and broadband

and much more!

The full report is available now for download on Lightyear's website.

To further explore the report's findings, Lightyear will host a live webinar on April 2nd. Register here to save your spot.

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 Expense Management platform provides AI-native automation for telecom billing and payments across all carriers and service types-providing enterprises with full visibility, control, and a single source of truth for telecom expenses within their closed lifecycle management platform.

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SOURCE: Lightyear