What's New
API Enhancements
We are pleased to announce that Italian carrier, Fastweb Wholesale are now available for Connections on The Connected World platform.
The following Fastweb Products are enabled:
E2C - Point to Point (E2C), mapped to Ethernet - Dedicated in The Connected World, via the Fiber Access Medium.
Internet2Connect (I2C), mapped to Dedicated Internet and Broadband in The Connected World, via the Copper and Fiber Access Media.
The API is a Serviceability Only API, meaning that a rate-card is needed from the supplier to ensure full quoting functionality is available.
The API provides coverage in Italy only.
The Eurofiber France WAZA API has been modified to support multiple Pricing Tier Zones in the API response.
API response processing will now take in consideration zones E0, E1, E2, E3 returned by the API, and map these values to the appropriate Rate Card pricing records.
The Shaw API ELine product (Ethernet - Switched or Ethernet - Dedicated) requires both an A-End and Z-End Address to successfully quote. Previously, this could only be quoted when both addresses had been entered via the P2P toggle option in CPQ quoting.
Following this enhancement, The Connected World will attempt to retrieve the nearest NNI addresses configured for Shaw to use where two addresses have not been provided.
Note that to work, this requires NNI's to be correctly configured in The Connected World.
Issues resolved in this release
Connectbase resolved the following issues in this release.
Internal Ref # | Issue/resolution |
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QTO-1140 | We have fixed the issue to prevent duplicate P2P pricing from being returned in the P2P quote when sub-quote pricing is enabled. Previously, individual location pricing was incorrectly included alongside P2P pricing in the P2P quote when sub-quote pricing was returned, leading to duplicate pricing in both the seller’s (P2P config setup) and buyer’s (P2P config setup as well as connected to seller’s instance) environments. This fix ensures accurate pricing by eliminating the unintended accumulation of individual location and P2P pricing in quotes. |
API Enhancements
Enhancement to enable Ethernet - Dedicated and Dedicated Internet products within the Eurofiber FR WAZA API, ensuring customers can access accurate pricing and tier information for these products at all supported speeds: 10 Mbps, 20 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 200 Mbps, 1000 Mbps, 1000 Mbps*, 2000 Mbps, 5000 Mbps, and 10000 Mbps.
TCW Enhancements
Requests to the Network Intelligence API V6 - Get Building Providers endpoint by buyers will now be logged in the Demand Engine. Logged details include the requesting company, address, and request timestamp. Additionally, serviceable providers will be identified as targeting companies.
API Enhancements
Connectbase identified that the 750/750 speed is missing from the existing mappings, preventing it from being included in API responses and rate card uploads. To address this, we have raised a request to add it under the appropriate base product ID.
Added 2000/1000 as a synonym for the existing 2G/1G speed.
This update ensures accurate service availability and pricing.
Issues resolved in this release
Connectbase resolved the following issues in this release.
Internal Ref # | Issue/resolution |
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ACE-751 | Improved API Quoting logic to exclude irrelevant audit log entries when an API does not provide service in a customer's country. |
ACE-1246 | Changes have been made to the Lumen V4 API around handling of cases where "isFiberFedILEC = No", to align with changes made within the Lumen portal. Prior to the change, and at Lumen's request, cases where "isFiberFedILEC = No" The Connected World would set Disposition Type as ICB, MRC and NRC Price 99999, set as Notes: 'Non-ILEC Fiber locations need ICB. Please contact the carrier for pricing.' and set API Info Field: isFiberFedILEC= No Following this change the MRC and NRC will be set to align with results as per the Lumen API and portal response. |
QTO-1178 | Enhanced CPQ pricing logic to support Building Category-specific pricing for configurations where buyers load supplier-specific pricing via Network Radar. Previously, there was no design to prioritize category-specific pricing over default pricing. After the fix:
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Connectbase Software Release Notes
New features and enhancements in this release
Connectbase introduced the following new features and enhancements in this release.
TCW UI Enhancements
Enhanced the Customer Bid Management (CBM) feature by significantly reducing latency when loading selected locations. Previously, locations would take on an average 4 minutes to load, but with this enhancement, they now load instantly, improving efficiency and user experience when initiating CBM.
API Enhancements
Earthlink API Implementation [Sellers Cloud]
We are pleased to announce that Earthlink services are now available for connection in The Connected World. Earthlink Services are available for Dedicated Internet and Broadband services, over a "Wireless - Fixed" medium.
Dedicated Internet services are available at 10Mbps, 20Mbps, 50Mbps, 100Mbps, 250Mbps, 500Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps symmetric speeds.
Broadband services are available at 10Mbps/3Mbps, 20Mbps/5Mbps, 30Mbps/10Mbps asymmetric speeds.
Earthlink pricing is available to Channel and Wholesale customers.
Issues resolved in this release
Connectbase resolved the following issues in this release.
Internal Ref # | Issue/resolution |
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QTO-1019 | Resolved an issue where approving or rejecting a CBM request resulted in a "Something went wrong" error in the UI, despite the approval being successful. Now, when a user approves or rejects a CBM request, no error message will appear, and the updated pricing will be correctly reflected in the quote without confusion. |
Supplemental updates since previous release
The following updates were released in hot fixes since the previous release.
Fixed an issue in the email templates feature where placeholder fields like {First_Name} were not populating correctly in the subject line. This resulted in incomplete or inaccurate subject lines, potentially causing confusion for recipients or breaking external integrations for customers relying on these placeholders. The fix specifically addresses two CBM templates (New Bid Management Request (External) and New CBM Request (Internal)), ensuring placeholders in their subject lines now populate as expected. Other templates will be addressed and fixed iteratively in future releases.
Connectbase Software Release Notes
New features and enhancements in this release
Connectbase introduced the following new features, enhancements and bug fixes in this release.
API Enhancements
We are please to announce that the Eurofiber France WAZA platform has been integrated as a Seller in The Connected world.
Buyers Cloud customers with Eurofiber France configured as a Seller can obtain quotes via the "Ethernet - Switched" product with Access Medium selected as "Fiber" for terms of 12, 24 and 36 months at the following speeds: 10Mbps, 20Mbps, 100Mbps, 200Mbps, 1Gbps, 2,5Gbps, 5Gbps, 10Gbps.
The Eurofiber France API returns serviceability only and so requires a rate card, provided by Eurofiber France, to be associated as part of the connection configuration in The Connected World.
Issues resolved in this release
Connectbase resolved the following issues in this release.
Internal Ref # | Issue/resolution |
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QTO-425 | Resolved an issue where P2P pricing configurations set up in the seller's instance caused location fallouts when quotes were run in the buyer's instance. However, quoting worked correctly within the seller's local instance. The fix ensures accurate P2P pricing across connected instances, preventing location fallouts in the buyer's CPQ. |
QTO-986 | Resolved an issue where a reseller defined margin was applied twice in the buyer’s instance for products the reseller sells but does not own i.e. connect to the buyer via sub-quotes. The fix ensures margins are applied correctly, aligning pricing between reseller and buyer instances. |
QTO-1038 | Resolved an issue that prevented users from editing CPQ rules due to errors or latency. Optimized functionality to allow users to edit rules within seconds. |