Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Nearly 4,000 of our current customers cannot obtain terrestrial DSL service today. Unfortunately, the prospects for many of these locations are not good for wired access due to very, very long wire distances.
For these rural homes, we introduced satellite Internet access at the beginning of this year. Today ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
As reported by CNet today, California's governor and Attorney General are asking California Internet service providers to help stop the illegal dissemination of child pornography.
The Governor and the Attorney General's letter was sent to the California ISP Association (CISPA), the largest of a dwindling number of trade groups for Internet ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Photo: Scott Manchester / PD
There's an article in the Press Democrat today about Sonic.net's expansion as a telecommunications and access provider.
This is a project we've been working on for over two years now, and Santa Rosa is just the first of many areas where service will be available. Businesses ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
We have expanded our FlexLink Ethernet offerings to 30Mbps symmetric (down and upstream) speed for businesses near the Santa Rosa downtown area. Product info will be updated shortly at: www.sonic.net/sales/flexlink
For business customers in Santa Rosa, both the ADSL2+ at up to 15Mbps/1Mbps and Ethernet products at up to 30Mbps/30Mbps ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Our new FlexLink business Internet access products were launched this week. I'll blog a bit of a sales pitch here, because I am real excited about the new technology behind the products.
These are the first products built on our new next generation network. Currently available in ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Our team today turned up pair bonded ADSL2+ to Tye C's place. Tye works in tech support, and happens to live a little over one mile of copper wire away from the Santa Rosa downtown central office. And tonight, Tye is rocking 30Mbps of downstream bandwidth on two ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
For folks interested in some of the technical details of the new solutions we are deploying, here are some links:
ADSL2+: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.5
ADSL2+M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU_G.992.5_Annex_M
EFM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_in_the_first_mile
Our current deployment can support bonding of up to two pairs of ADSL2+, and up to eight pairs using EFM. You can do the ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
At over a mile of distance, we're very pleased with the 3.5Mbps symmetric performance we're seeing on this single pair test loop. With eight pair bonding (8x3.5, in this example), this means delivery of a 25Mbps symmetric link is possible at this sort of range. This very exciting ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
This loop is a bit over one mile long (~5500ft). Downstream sync is 16Mbps, upstream sync at 1.1Mbps. This is served out of the Santa Rosa 01 (downtown) central office, from our new DSLAM deployment there.
Click for larger, more legible image.
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
I had an opportunity to visit a customer's home this last Saturday while our installers were putting in their new satellite broadband service.
Here are a few photos I took during the installation. Click here for larger images.
It's very exciting to deliver a broadband access product that reaches ...
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