New Releases

Bumblebee 4.31 (July 19, 2026)

Bumblebee Static IP

Bumblebee Static IP is cellular feature, it provides a static public source IP address for all data traffic initiated from on-prem when the site failover to cellular. It enables enterprises to whitelist source IPs to secure their applications. Check out Bumblebee Static IP for Cellular to learn how to configure it.

Shared Data Pool Alerts & Throttling

Shared Data Pool is a cellular feature that alerts enterprise entities or individual sites when their monthly cellular data allowance exceeds a certain threshold and has the ability to throttle the throughput of all sites in the shared data pool to a specified rate. This is useful to prevent enterprises or individual sites from unexpected excessive cellular spending.

Check out Shared Data Pool Alerts & Throttling for configuration details.

Ping and Traceroute on Secondary WAN and Cellular WAN

This feature expands the diagnostics tools of Ping and Traceroute to Secondary WAN and Cellular WAN while the primary WAN is in operation. To use the feature, select the CPE, click Actions -> Ping and Traceroute.

Account Switching Without Logout

This feature allows iAM users who have access to multiple Bumblebee portal accounts to switch between accounts while on the platform without having to log out and log back in. It makes operating the Bumblebee platform more efficient and enjoyable. To switch account, click the login dropdown at the top right corner, click Switch Account.

DHCP Clients Visibility

This feature displays the DHCP clients when a Bumblebee CPE has enabled routing and DHCP server functions on its LAN ports. The DHCP Clients display the device host name, IP address, MAC address, MAC vendor and the time duration for the MAC lease to expire.

To view the DHCP Clients,

1. Select a CPE at the Internet CPE list page,

2. Click LAN tab (next to the Details tab and the Monitoring tab) on the second half of the same page.

LAN Stats

The LAN Stats feature displays packet statistics for all Ethernet ports. To view the statistics:

1. Go to the Internet CPE list page and select a CPE.

2. Click the LAN tab (located next to the Details and Monitoring tabs).

3. In the Network Stats section, expand the desired interface to view the stats.

To refresh the data, click the Refresh button next to the DHCP Clients tab.

Structured Editing for Addresses

Once a CPE is created with its shipping and site addresses, you can edit these addresses in a structured format. This enables searching and filtering by address.

• To edit, click Actions -> Edit CPE Info.

• To search, enter the key words. For example, to search all CPEs by state, enter the state abbreviation.

• To view the expanded columns, scroll to the right on the CPE list page.

Email Verification For New Accounts

With this release, new account creation now requires email verification before the account is created on the Bumblebee platform.

Generate Registration Token

Generate Registration Token is a feature that applies the configuration on the portal directly to the CPE via the CPE's diagnostic portal. This feature is a disaster recovery mechanism where the CPE has lost connection to the portal due to a misconfiguration. For example, a typo in WAN IP address configuration or a typo in VLAN. Follow Generate Registration Token for more details.

Bumblebee 4.30 (June 7, 2026)

Cellular Failsafe Registration

This feature is available on the BN-CPE-1000C and BN-CPE-1000FC. It allows a Bumblebee CPE to register with the portal using the cellular interface when the primary WAN is unavailable. This is especially useful in situations where the primary WAN is not yet available due to construction delays or pending permits. Once the primary WAN connection is restored, the CPE automatically switches over to it.

NetOps Cowork PCAP Analyst

This feature adds new tools and skills to our agentic AI model, NetOps Cowork. It can now analyze PCAP files from the Packet Capture feature and provide intelligent diagnoses to assist with troubleshooting.

For example:

“Analyze the <PCAP file> and tell me if a specific source IP is seen by the CPE.”

NetOps Cowork retrieves the specified PCAP file from My Documents and performs a detailed analysis on it. You can make further queries for more specific questions.

Alert Recipient Override

This feature addresses scenarios where alert messages need to be sent to service providers or teams that are different from the default Operations team configured for one or more specific sites.

To configure:

1. Select a CPE at the Internet CPE list page

2. Go to Actions → Edit Downtime Notification Interval.

3. Check “Enable Event Alert Override”.

4. Enter the desired email address(es).

Bumblebee 4.29 (May 15, 2026)

My Documents

My Documents is a feature that allows you to store important documents directly on the Bumblebee platform. For example, you can upload installation photos, screenshots of speed test results, IP range assignment documents, and other relevant files.

To upload a file, go to My Documents, select a CPE, and click Upload. Drag and drop files to upload them. You can change the file name, view file (only png file format is supported for viewing) and download the file.

Cellular WAN Dashboard

The Cellular WAN Dashboard displays cellular signal strength, traffic statistics, and failover counts over a selectable period ranging from one hour up to one month.

To view the dashboard, click Cellular WAN, select a CPE, and the dashboard will appear in the lower half of the page.

Cellular WAN Get Diagnostics

Cellular WAN Diagnostics return detailed information regarding the cellular modem, its state and statiscs. It helps trouble shooting cellular connectivity issues. To retrieve cellular statistics, click Cellular WAN -> select a CPE -> Actions -> Get Diagnostics

VLAN Tagging in Router Mode

This feature is designed for service providers who own DIA fiber circuits. VLAN Tagging in Router Mode allows you to encapsulate IP packets with a VLAN tag. This is necessary in certain custom DIA deployments where the provider edge (PE) routers expect VLAN-tagged IP packets to differentiate network addresses for each site.

To configure VLAN Tagging:

1. Select a CPE.

2. Go to Actions → Edit Network Info → Router Mode.

3. Enable VLAN Tagging.

4. Enter the VLAN ID and click Save.

Router Mode to Include More Ethernet LAN Ports

This feature is available for Router Mode CPEs. It allows multiple Ethernet ports to be configured as LAN ports within a single LAN subnet.

For the BN-CPE-1000F(C), it supports up to 4 Ethernet ports (Eth0, Eth1, Eth2, and Eth5) to be configured as LAN ports. This eliminates the need to deploy a separate Ethernet switch at the site.

To configure, select a CPE, go to Actions -> Edit Network Info -> Router Mode. Scroll down to LAN Interface, select available Ethernet ports.

Speed Tests on Secondary WAN and Cellular WAN

You can run Speed Tests now on Secondary WAN and Cellular WAN without having to failover to these backup connections This helps establish performance metrics on Cellular WAN after the initial installation. For details, refer to LAN and WAN Speed Test.

Network-Based Remote Access

Network Based Remote Access expands the OOB Remote Control features to allow IT admins to access the remote IT devices via its HTTP, HTTPS or SSH ports. To learn more, refer to OOB Remote Network-Based Access

Packet Capture

Packet Capture allows customers to capture packets on any of the CPE interfaces for traffic analysis and troubleshooting.

To capture packets, select a CPE, then click Actions → Packet Capture. The captured packets are automatically uploaded to My Documents for that CPE.

The files are named in the format pktcapture-timestamp-doc-id. You can rename the file and download it for analysis in Wireshark.

NetOps Cowork

NetOps Cowork is your agentic AI teammate for network operations and troubleshooting. Using advanced reasoning, tools, and skills, it intelligently selects and chains multiple Bumblebee API calls to diagnose issues, provide deep visibility, and guide you through troubleshooting.

NetOps Cowork actions are read-only. It does not make any configuration changes, ensuring maximum safety. Over time, NetOps Cowork will gain more tools and develop additional skills to troubleshoot network issues where Bumblebee CPEs are deployed.

To use NetOps Cowork, click NetOps Cowork in the left navigation menu and start a conversation. For example, you can use a prompt such as: Get me the round-trip time from the CPE ‘2660 Lab 1000C’ to 8.8.8.8.”

Bumblebee 4.28 (April 3, 2026)

VLAN Tagging

This feature enables the Bumblebee CPE to provide Internet NID functionality in carrier networks. It significantly simplifies the carrier’s internal network and provides flexibility for feature-rich services. For more information, refer to the Bumblebee Internet NID Architecture.

Global MFA Enforcement

The Global MFA Enforcement feature improves account security by giving the root account owner the option to automatically enforce MFA login for all IAM users. To enable this option, refer to the Root Account Global Settings.

Inactivity Lock

The Inactivity Lock feature improves account security by giving the root account owner the option to automatically disable an IAM user that has not logged in to the portal for a configured number of days. The default value is 90 days. Only the root account owner can reactivate the account. To configure this setting, refer to the Root Account Global Settings.

Test HTTP Connectivity

This feature is an addition to the current Ping and Traceroute. It provides the ability to test HTTP and HTTPS connectivity to a website. To use it, select a CPE, go to Actions -> Ping and Traceroute, enter the full URL (form example, https://www.yahoo.com), click HTTP.

Static Source IP for BN-CPE-IP

The Static Source IP feature ensures that the source IP address for ping tests conducted to a BN-CPE-IP target remains the same and does not change over time. The purpose is to allow the target device to whitelist the source IP address so that the ping tests can succeed. To view the Static Source IP, select a BN-CPE-IP site and check the Source IP column on the Internet CPE page.

Bumblebee 4.27 (March 13, 2026)

Cellular WAN: Edit Data Forwarding

This feature provides an option to disable data forwarding when the CPE has failed over to Cellular interface for Internet connectivity. Data forwarding is turned on by default. To disable, go to Cellular WAN, select a CPE, click Actions -> Edit Data Forwarding.

Secondary WAN Default

Secondary WAN utilizes ETH2 interface as the second WAN interface. This is disabled by default. To enable Secondary WAN, go to Internet CPE, select a CPE, click Actions -> Edit Secondary WAN.

1-Click Auto Discovery of Switched PDU

This feature allows you to discover the IP address and onboard automatically a connected (via ETH3 port) switched PDU, thus providing a plug-n-play for remotely managing switched PDUs. To discover, go to PDU Management under OOB Remote Control, select a CPE, click Discover PDU.

APC Switched PDU Support

APC switched rack PDU AP7900B, 8 Outlets has been added to the supported vendor list for switched PDUs.

Bumblebee 4.26 (February 13, 2026)

OOB Remote PDU Management

The Bumblebee portal allows you to remotely control Power Distribution Units (PDUs) deployed at customer sites. This enables you to power on or off remote site devices such as modems, firewalls, routers, and Bumblebee CPEs.This capability significantly reduces truck rolls by allowing a power reboot of remote devices to restore normal operations without on-site visits.To learn how to configure this feature, follow the instructions here.

OOB Remote Serial Console Access

The Bumblebee portal allows you to remotely access the serial consoles of IT infrastructure devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, and servers deployed at customer sites. This capability significantly reduces truck rolls and becomes essential when a remote device loses functionality due to a software bug or misconfiguration that cannot be resolved with a simple power cycle reboot. By combining OOB Remote PDU Management with OOB Remote Serial Console Access, IT staff can avoid truck rolls entirely. All IT infrastructure devices can be recovered remotely as long as there is Internet connectivity. To learn more about how to configure this feature, follow the instructions here.

WAN Link Utilization - Monthly View

WAN Link Utilization now includes a Monthly View. This view provides a better gauge of bandwidth utilization at each site. Note:

• Peak Rate represents the highest one-minute link utilization within an hour.

• Average Rate represents the average link utilization for that hour.

By combining this new capability with the Peak Hour Throughput Trend (a long-running record spanning 3 years on the same dashboard), service providers and IT staff gain a clear understanding of future bandwidth growth requirements. To access the Monthly View, go to the Dashboards -> WAN Link Utilization

Link-Down Relay Default Change

The Link-Down Relay is enabled by default. This means that when the WAN link goes down, the corresponding LAN port is also brought down. This allows a firewall or router connected to the LAN port to detect the failure and switch to its alternative route.

Post-mortem Analysis Email

After a WAN link experiences a down-and-up event, a post-mortem analysis email will be sent to account IAM users, entity IAM users, and child entity IAM users.

Advanced Ookla SpeedTest

The Advanced Ookla SpeedTest is designed for Ookla tests in countries outside the US, where the default setting sometimes fails to select the nearest test server. It offers two options:

• Use the nearest Ookla server, or

• Specify a particular Ookla server ID.

Note: For US sites, selecting the nearest server may not always yield the best results.

To configure, follow the instructions here.

RTT Jitter Display

The RTT Jitter represents the variation in ping round-trip time and provides visibility into link quality. In this release, the RTT Jitter display has been added to the WAN Link Health Dashboard.

Secondary WAN

The Secondary WAN provides a backup WAN link via the Bumblebee CPE's ETH3 interface to increase a site's Internet uptime. When the primary WAN (ETH0) goes down, the Bumblebee CPE automatically begins forwarding traffic through the Secondary WAN. For more details, refer to this document.

Cellular WAN

The Cellular WAN provides a backup WAN link via the cellular interface, which is available on the BN-CPE-1000C and BN-CPE-1000FC product codes. For more information, refer to this FAQ.

Bumblebee 4.25 (November 21, 2025)

Application Category Analysis

Bumblebee uses AI to classify applications observed in traffic flowing from LAN to WAN into eight categories:

• Business Critical Apps

• Observability and Monitoring Apps

• Entertainment Apps

• Social Media Apps

• Personal Cloud and Social Sharing Apps

• Cyber Security Apps

• Miscellaneous Apps

• Unknown Apps

Unknown Apps are those that have not yet been classified by the AI at the time they are displayed.

Classification results are shown in two views in the Application Visibility Dashboard page:

• App Category Bandwidth – A pie chart showing bandwidth share by category

• Top 5 Apps by Bandwidth – A bar chart showing the top 5 applications within the selected category

Link-Down Relay

This feature forces the LAN port to shut down when the WAN connection goes down. Its purpose is to trigger a firewall or SD-WAN router to activate its backup Internet link. To enable this feature on a specific CPE, go to: Internet NIDs → Actions → Edit Link-Down Relay.

Link-Down Event Notification

This feature allows you to add additional email addresses specifically for Link-Down events. Its purpose is to support ticketing systems such as Zendesk, where only Link-Down events are forwarded to create new tickets. To configure, go to: Operations → Link-Down Events, and enter one or more email addresses separated by commas.

Bumblebee 4.24 (October 17, 2025)

Application Visibility Dashboard

This is a new dashboard that provides visibility and analytics of all applications traffic passing through a Bumblebee device. You may be surprised to learn that a site's most frequently used application is DNS query and the most data intensive application is Zoom or Teams. To learn more, refer to Application Visibility Dashboard.

Support Center

The Support Center allows customers to open, manage, and resolve support tickets directly on the Bumblebee platform. It centralizes all support tickets and correspondence in one place. To create a support ticket, click 'Support' in the main navigation menu, then select 'Create Ticket.' For more details, refer to the Support Center FAQ.

Metro VLAN

Bumblebee Metro devices now support multiple NNI ports and allow VLAN tagging and Q-in-Q tagging being swapped between LAN and WAN ports.

Shipment Tracking

The Shipment Tracking feature allows customers to track a device's shipment status without out-of-band communication via email. When the Bumblebee team ships a device, an email update with the tracking ID is sent to the customer.

Maintenance Announcement

The Maintenance Announcement feature enables providers to announce and track scheduled downtime on the Bumblebee platform. Announcements are delivered via email alerts to relevant parties. Scheduled maintenance downtime is not counted toward uptime metrics. To schedule an announcement, select a site, go to Actions -> Announcement

One IAM User for Multiple Accounts and Entities

There are situations where the same IAM user (i.e., the same email address) is associated with different accounts and entities. For example, an agent representing two customers, each contracting with a different service provider for their internet connectivity, may encounter this. The two service providers have separate accounts on the Bumblebee platform, but both may create the same IAM user entity for the agent to access. When the agent logs in to the Bumblebee platform with their password, they are prompted to select one of the two accounts. This feature allows the agent to use a single password instead of remembering multiple ones. The feature is seamless for users.

Bumblebee 4.23 (August 22, 2025)

Speed tests with Bumblebee Networks

Bumblebee Networks Activation Test feature allows customers to measure WAN link speed via RFC 2544 test method. In this release, we have expanded the speed test capabilities to include commercial sites such as fast.com and Ookla Speedtest. With a click of button on the Bumblebee platform, you can measure WAN link speed from the Bumblebee CPE to these commercial sites.

In addition, you can use Bumblebee CPE as a speed test target to measure your internal network performance from a browser anywhere as long as it can reach the Bumblebee CPE -- all you need is a host machine and browser.

These expanded capabilities help enterprise customers to segment network performance and determine network performance bottleneck. To learn how to run these speed tests, refer to the Speed Tests with Bumblebee Networks document.

Post-mortem outage analysis

Bumblebee platform alerts WAN outages, does network fault mapping in the alert message and saves the event for long term storage. In this release we have added the post-mortem analysis report on the outage that automatically records the reasons for the outage. For more details on how to view the analysis, refer to Post-mortem Outage Analysis document.

Interface status and speed

You can now view Bumblebee CPE interface connecting status and negotiated speed. To view, select a NID, scroll down to the second half of the screen. Click Details -> Interfaces.

List Devices and Vendors on connected subnets

When you run "Get Diagnostics" action on a specific Bumblebee CPE, all connected network devices on its WAN and LAN side are listed along with the vendor names. To view this, follow the steps below:

1. Login to the Bumblebee platform

2. Click Internet NIDs

3. Select one NID, click Actions -> Get Diagnostics

4. Scroll down to sections Hosts on LAN and Hosts on WAN. )Note if a connected host is a VM, there may not be identifier for them.)

   
   

Recovery from a failed token

When a Bumblebee device is created a security token is generated and is embedded in the device. This token is used during the device registration phase with the platform. In a rare scenario where the registration fails, a new token can be applied to the device to facilitate the registration process again. For more details on how recover, refer to Recovery from a failed token document.