Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Our network build teams are making very good progress on the 19 central offices which we are building out in the first phase. We have had teams in San Francisco, the East Bay, Sacramento and all around Sonoma County over the last month and a half. Here are ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Fuitless visit to the FCC
For the past eight years, I have seen a movement away from critical open access, and toward a monopolized Internet. It’s time for change.
In 1996, during the end of Clinton’s first term, congress passed the 1996 Telecom Act, opening voice and data communications to competition. ...
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Building to a gold star - CO build status
Today we delivered service for our first Fusion Broadband customer in Santa Rosa.
The first circuit was delivered for Bob Amen, a long time Sonic.net customer. Bob is also the director of systems and network admin at local publisher O’Reilly ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
The first thing that comes to mind when I try to describe the Sebastopol central office is “cute”. It reminds me of Sonic.net’s old datacenter; crowded, small, but with purpose. It’s a plucky little CO.
Yesterday we began the installation process in Sebastopol for our next generation products: FlexLink ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
How much Internet is too much? Apparently it’s 250 gigabytes, enough Internet content to fill up a $55 hard disk drive.
Comcast made news today by announcing a usage cap for Internet users. You can read more about it at PC Magazine. See also the DSLReports coverage.
The reason ...
Posted in Access, Cable, Hybrid fibre-coaxial, Net neutrality, P2P, Peer-to-peer, usage caps | Comments Off
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Sonic.net and BroadLink staff re-engineer BL network
As mentioned in the status blog (formerly system MOTD), BroadLink Communications had a system failure in a critical component of their network today. A hard drive in their core router failed, and while they do have spare parts, they were unable to rebuild ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Fusion Bundle Logo Concept
As discussed previously, we have been working for some time toward the launch of new next generation products. As we get nearer deployment, some of the details are firming up.
First, bundling. This is a hot topic - some customers really like bundles, and some really ...
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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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