FlexLink, Fusion Online in Five Six Cities

November 20, 2008 – 2:52 pm

Board Updated 11/19/2008

Board Updated 11/19/2008


I am very proud of our central office installation teams. These folks have been working long hours and are getting great work done. We’re underway in virtually every central office, with many of them pretty far along toward completion.

The network is now live in five six cities, and we are anticipating first customer deliveries in each over the next week or so. If you’re interested in service, you can order now.

The following cities are online today:

  • Santa Rosa
  • Sebastopol
  • Rohnert Park
  • Windsor
  • Healdsburg
  • Petaluma

Updated November 24th, Petaluma is now online.

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  • Jeremy

    Is M-section in Rohnert Park still out of the loop? I get this error on the Fusion order page.

    “Uh Oh. Looks like you are currently out of range for Sonic.net Fusion”

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    The distance limit for Fusion and FlexLink ADSL2+ is about eight thousand wire feet from the serving central office.

    You can find out where your central office is by going to http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco and putting in your area code and prefix.

    This will bring up a result that includes your CLLI (pronounced “silly”!) code. Click the CLLI code and you’ll receive a list of all of the prefixes served out of that CLLI.

    Find the one for your prefix, and see the option for “Detailed Switch Info” and click that.

    This will give you a map, including the street address of the central office that serves your prefix. Then, you can get a rough idea of wire length by using Google maps and obtaining driving directions.

    Rohnert Park though is unique. It’s wiring runs in a rather circuitous path, so for that CO in particular, driving distance may not give you a good indication.

    All of that being said, there’s also an easier way. You can call Sonic.net support and have them run a DSL prequal on your loop. Ask them for the CO loop length – if it’s less than 8000ft, it’s probably possible to get an ADSL2+ product.

    -Dane

  • Austin

    Any plans for ADSL2 services in Napa?

    -austin

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Austin,

    Napa is not part of our initial build-out of 19 offices. Depending upon how those do, we’ll be evaluating additional locations as we plan our growth.

    In other words, the better we do in our first phase deployment, the more likely. Tell a friend! :)

    -Dane

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  • SimonSays

    What about 94110? CLLI SNFCCA05DS0?

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    San Fran 05 has had it’s cabinet delivered and bolted down, but at least as of the 21st, the remainder of the build-out hadn’t been logged on our board. I expect we’re a bit further along now, but I’ll need to review the board for details.

    Time for that build-out board webcam, I think. :)

    -Dane

    P.s.: That being said, all of the SF offices will be done in a few weeks – so you can order now!

  • Roger Weeks

    Any plans for San Jose?

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Roger,

    Other Bay Area cities are under consideration, but for now we’ve got to see how the first 19 offices that we’ve built do in the market. I don’t want to overextend. Clearly, if it works well we’ll be studying density and deploying where our customers are!

    -Dane

  • Jeremy

    CTTICA12DS0 — I guess I’m considered part of Cotati. Lame. That’s not even on the board.

  • Robert

    Dane,

    My CO is BKLYCA01 (CLLI BKLYCA01DS0). Can you provide an update? I was told by Sonic.net that it is not currently available, but I understand that my CO is part of the initial roll-out.

    Thanks,
    Robert

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Robert,

    Berkeley is built, but hasn’t been powered up yet. We’re waiting on completion in Albany so that we can do both in the same day, as it’s the same staff who work both offices that we need to coordinate with. Should be done quite soon!

    -Dane

  • Jon

    Is Albany available for pre-order? What’s the best way to do that?

    Thanks, good luck, and hurry up! :)
    jon

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Yup, you can place an “expression of interest” for Albany now, and we’ll turn that into an order (after communicating with you) just as soon as it’s live!

    Here’s the page: Fusion Broadband info/order

  • Forest

    Google’s driving directions say I’m 9500 feet from ALBYCA11. Worry! My ancient copper line is doing 1.5 mbit right now. Is there much chance of me qualifying for Fusion?

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Forest,

    That’s further than we are delivering today, as the goal for now is to offer speeds from six to eighteen megabits.

    Once we open up a 3Mbps product bracket, you are likely to be in range. Then, there is also the possibility of pair bonding, which is working well in testing. We have not done the product design and pricing work for bonded offerings yet, but that will come before too long.

  • Keoni

    How about 27 – 28k feet from SBSTCA11? Pair bonding sounds interesting – what are its limitations? How about high-gain antenna options with your wireless offering? Currently a HughesNet customer as Comcast wants $56k for cable install.

  • http://sworddance.com/blog Pat

    MTVWCA11DS1 pls!

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    FYI, Berkeley and Albany are open for orders now!

    -Dane

  • Jon

    Hi Dane! I placed my order on the 22nd, but haven’t yet heard from your techs about an install date. Everything OK over there? Thanks!

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Jon, I’ll check in on it!

    -Dane

  • Jon

    Thanks, Dane. Did you find anything out?

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    I heard we got a firm order commit a day or so ago – you should hear from our group to schedule your install any time!

    -Dane

  • Andrew Leuzinger

    I see the distance limit for ADSL2+ (Fusion) is about 8000 wire feet from a central office. Per Google Maps, I’m currently about 2.1 miles (11,000 feet) from the Santa Rosa central office. Is there a time in the future when I can expect ADSL2+ (Fusion) to be available at my home, or is timing of availability really unknown today?

  • http://www.sonic.net/ Dane Jasper

    Andrew,

    At longer distances, ADSL2+ doesn’t generally deliver more speed than ADSL1. The primary benefit in this case would be the possibility of pair bonding, and also standalone (no voice) service. Give us a few months – we need to wrap up some testing and product design on bonding.

    -Dane

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