Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
On October 12th, Apple released the newest version of iOS for it’s handheld devices, iOS version 5. This update is available for virtually all of their i-devices.
A customer asked, “I’d be interested in hearing if Sonic sees a significant traffic spike today due to “massive Apple updates day”, so we ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Michael Powell
When was the last time someone offered to sell you Broadband over Power Line (BPL)?
BPL was one of the FCC’s five “modes” of competitive access, and the FCC traded this flawed concept of “intermodal” competition for true open market competition.
In 1996, Congress passed The Telecom Act, a major update ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
NOTE: If you’re interested in broadband & policy, you are in the right place!
Read the related post, “Help us, protect your privacy online” and sign the EFF petition. Then, learn “Why U.S. Broadband is so Slow“. If you are concerned about capped Internet consumption, see “Drilling Through the Caps“. Finally, learn more about Sonic.net’s ...
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
FTTH cabinet in Sebastopol, CA
Last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reached a decision on proposed new cabinet infrastructure to be deployed by AT&T to deliver TV service in the city. The Board correctly concluded that the proposed utility cabinets in the existing utility right-of-way do not require an ...
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Placing duct for Fiber-to-the-Home
This month Sonic.net celebrates seventeen years of providing Internet access, and we celebrate a major milestone: our first step outside.
An an Internet Service Provider (ISP), beginning in 1994 with dialup Linux shell access, we used conventional phone lines from Pacific Bell and 16.8kbps modems to provide access. ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
With news about AT&T’s announcement last week that they will be imposing caps on their ADSL and U-Verse VDSL customers, we have received a lot of inquiries about whether or not this will affect Sonic.net customers, and whether we plan to follow the lead of Comcast and AT&T. We are ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
We have just reduced the price for many of our Fusion services, again! This is the fourth major price reduction for our Fusion product line. (See related articles at the bottom of this post for previous reductions.)
Sonic.net’s innovative Fusion Broadband + Phone service delivers the fastest possible Broadband, plus land ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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