Archive for the ‘FTTH’ Category

Sebastopol Fiber Update

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Residents in Sebastopol have been noticing our construction crews in the area over the last few weeks, so we can’t keep it a secret much longer: Fiber coverage is expanding! With the first phase of construction complete and online today, we’ve got customers enjoying both 100Mbps and Gigabit speeds today. Wondering ...

Sonic.net Plans Gigabit Fiber Network in San Francisco (Release)

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

SANTA ROSA, CA – December 14th, 2010- Sonic.net today announced it has filed a permit application to build a Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) network in San Francisco. The application encompasses an initial pilot region of two thousand homes in the Sunset District, and describes a five-year build-out plan which would reach most ...

Why U.S. Broadband is So Slow

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Cheap, Ultrafast Broadband? At Least Hong Kong Has It. By Randall Stross. Today The New York Times wrote about Gigabit fiber broadband in Hong Kong, which is available there for only $26 per month. The article includes mention of Sonic.net, and the Google fiber project. In the article, author Randall Stross wrote, “In ...

TWiT Triangulation interview with Dane Jasper

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

I did an interview with the TWiT folks a few weeks ago, you can watch it here. We touched on topics from Sonic.net history to broadband competition, FTTH, net neutrality and IPv6. Watch the interview: Hosts:Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Building better broadband with Dane Jasper co-founder and CEO of Sonic.net

Sonic.net Selected by Google to Operate Stanford Fiber Network

Monday, December 13th, 2010

SANTA ROSA, CA – December 13th, 2010 Sonic.net today announced it has been selected to operate and support the trial fiber-to-the-home network Google is building at Stanford University. This experimental project will test new fiber construction and operation methods, while delivering full gigabit speeds to approximately 850 ...

Micro-trenching at Sonic.net

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

As part of our next-generation Fiber to the Home (FTTH) efforts, Sonic.net has been working on various fiber installation methods in an attempt to drive down costs and increase the speed at which fiber deployment can be completed.  Micro-trenching is anticipated to be a part of this in areas where ...