Archive for July, 2012
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Tonight, Wednesday, August 1, at 12:01AM we will be performing invasive maintenance on equipment serving Fusion and FlexLink products in San Bruno. Customer down time is expected to be less than 20 minutes.
-Sonic.net NOC
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Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Today is Sonic.net’s 18th birthday. Founded by Dane Jasper and Scott Doty on July 26th of 1994, “Sonoma Interconnect” (SonIc) has grown beyond our local roots to be the top rated Internet access provider in the nation. (BroadbandReports, top US score, 4.53/5.00)
Our team took some time today to celebrate eighteen ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
This Friday morning, at 12:00AM on July 27th, we will be performing intrusive maintenance on DSL aggregation equipment serving customers in the LA area. Expected downtime is less than 15 minutes.
Update: The maintenance was completed successfully and all affected customers are back online.
- Robbie and Tomoc
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2012
A port on one of our ATM aggregation switches appears to have failed and has taken a small subset of legacy DSL customers in the bay area offline. We are working on rerouting this traffic and bringing these customers back online ASAP.
-Robbie and Tomoc
Update: All affected customers have been moved ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
The San Francisco Business Times reports that a San Francisco judge has rejected a challenge to AT&T’s planned cabinet deployment, which will soon deliver AT&T’s U-verse broadband and television services.
I’ve written in the past in support of the infrastructure necessary for broadband service delivery, and I am heartened by this ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
This Friday morning, at 12:00AM on July 20th, we will be performing intrusive maintenance on DSL aggregation equipment serving customers in the LA area. Expected downtime is less than 15 minutes.
- Robbie and Tomoc
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Friday, July 13th, 2012
This coming Monday, July 16th, from 9:00PM to 3:00AM, we will be performing major intrusive work within one of our core points of presence in San Jose. We do not expect any service impact to our customers as a result of this operation. Fusion voice users may notice a very short delay ...
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
The state’s leadership today approved the most expensive infrastructure project ever undertaken in California, a high-speed rail project that will connect San Francisco and Sacramento with Los Angeles. The cost: $68,000,000,000.
Generally speaking, rail in the US is useless for public transportation, so I’m sure this will be a wonderful resource ...
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Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Tonight, July 8th, at 12:00am, we will be performing maintenance on routers that aggregate Business-T and Frame-Relay connections. The procedure will require a reboot of the routers. Expected downtime is less than 15 minutes.
- Robbie and Tomoc
Update: As some of you may have noticed, 12:00am tonight is actually July 6th. ...
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
Due to a hardware failure in the Sonic Telecom backbone we will need to perform emergency router maintenance over the next hour. We do not believe this work will have any impact on customer traffic but there is the potential for a brief service interruption. Further updates will follow shortly.
-Tim ...
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