Archive for the ‘Access’ Category

Sebastopol construction

Wednesday, September 3rd, 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 ...

Slaughtering the hogs

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 ...

Punt!

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_113" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Sonic.net and BroadLink staff re-engineer BL network"][/caption] 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 ...

Next generation product pricing

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_92" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Fusion Bundle Logo Concept"][/caption] 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 ...

Satellite Broadband: Demo it here!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Nearly 4,000 of our current customers cannot obtain terrestrial DSL service today. Unfortunately, the prospects for many of these locations are not good for wired access due to very, very long wire distances. For these rural homes, we introduced satellite Internet access at the beginning of this year. Today ...

The Governor and the Internet

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 ...

Sonic.net moves into fast lane

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 ...

Ethernet products expanded to 30Mbps

Monday, March 17th, 2008

We have expanded our FlexLink Ethernet offerings to 30Mbps symmetric (down and upstream) speed for businesses near the Santa Rosa downtown area. Product info will be updated shortly at: www.sonic.net/sales/flexlink For business customers in Santa Rosa, both the ADSL2+ at up to 15Mbps/1Mbps and Ethernet products at up to 30Mbps/30Mbps ...

FlexLink Product Launch

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Our new FlexLink business Internet access products were launched this week. I'll blog a bit of a sales pitch here, because I am real excited about the new technology behind the products. These are the first products built on our new next generation network. Currently available in ...

30Mbps to Tye’s house

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Our team today turned up pair bonded ADSL2+ to Tye C's place. Tye works in tech support, and happens to live a little over one mile of copper wire away from the Santa Rosa downtown central office. And tonight, Tye is rocking 30Mbps of downstream bandwidth on two ...