Lightyear’s 2025 State of Connectivity Report – Lightyear Triple-T
Join Lightyear’s CEO, Dennis Thankachan, as he explores key enterprise telecom trends using Lightyear’s proprietary data. He’ll dive into Internet/WAN pricing and bandwidth trends, the impact of global inflation, and the shift between Waves and Ethernet Point-to-Point for wireline WANs. Plus, he’ll cover the state of MPLS in 2025—where it still persists and pricing—and the rise of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), including costs and market interest. Don’t miss this data-driven discussion on how these trends shape enterprise network decisions.
Dennis Thankachan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear. Founded in 2019, Lightyear
helps more than 400 enterprises procure, manage, and pay for telecom services through
one connected platform. Its Procurement, Network Inventory Management, and Expense
Management products combine software, AI agents, proprietary data from 1,200+
carriers, and telecom experts to reduce costs, save time, and maintain control across the
service lifecycle.
Before Lightyear, Dennis was a public equity investor at PointState Capital, and before
that, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Dennis is also an active investor and
advisor to several high-growth software companies.
