Archive for October, 2011

Legacy ATM Network Outage

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Today, October 30 at approximately 5:43 PM, we began tracking an issue with one of our ATM switches that serves DSL to customers in the greater Bay Area. This issue seems to be dropping all traffic across that switch. We are working to remedy the problem as quickly as possible. -Jared Update: ...

Telecom Backbone Maintenance part 2

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Tonight, Thursday October 26 at 11:01 PM, we will be performing a software upgrade on four core backbone routers in our CLEC network. This upgrade should not have any impact on customer traffic as we will route traffic away from these routers before the invasive work. Each router should be ...

Telecom Backbone Maintenance

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Tonight, Thursday October 26 at 12:01 AM, we will be performing a software upgrade on three of our core backbone routers in our CLEC network. This upgrade should not have any impact on customer traffic as we will route traffic away from these routers before the invasive work. Each router ...

Wireless Backbone Issues

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

Tonight at approximately 6:35 one of the backbone links in our wireless network failed, causing poor performance and connectivity for most of our wireless Internet customers. We have a technician en-route now to investigate the problem and will report as we make progress. -Jared and Adam Update: As of 7:35, we have ...

Invasive Telecom Network Maintenance

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

This Saturday, October 22 at 12:01 AM, we will be performing a software upgrade on one of our customer-serving routers in Santa Rosa. This will cause a 5-10 minute interruption of Internet and phone service for customers served by this router. -Jared and Nathan

Partial CRAC Failure in Santa Rosa

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

We’ve had a major failure in our redundant CRAC (Computer Room AC) that handles cooling for our Santa Rosa Data Center a Colocation Facilities.  The redundant systems have taken over and we believe that the situation is under control.  Our vendors are en route, more information forthcoming. Update: 14:15:14 PDT.  The ...

Chico Legacy DSL Migration

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

This Friday, October 21 at 12:01 AM, we will be migrating all of our legacy DSL subscribers in the Chico area to a new, higher-capacity circuit. This migration will take 20-30 minutes, and affected customers will lose Internet connectivity while the migration is being done. -Jared and Nathan Update: The migration has ...

Backbone Network Maintenance

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

This Thursday October 20 at 12:01 AM we will be performing an equipment upgrade on our backbone at our San Jose POP. We will be routing customer traffic away from the point of maintenance, so there should be no customer impact. -Jared, Nathan and Matt

The Apple effect on ISP traffic

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 ...

Telecom Backbone Maintenance

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Tonight, Wednesday Oct 12 at 12:01 AM we will be performing maintenance on one of our core backbone routers in the telecom network. This maintenance should take 10-15 minutes, and no there should be no customer impact. -Jared This maintenance is now completed. The core router is back in service, and there ...