Archive for the ‘Access’ Category
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 ...
Posted in Access, Facilities, Policy | 13 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Access, Policy | 61 Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2012
When the Amgen Tour of California rolls into Santa Rosa, Sonic.net provides critical speed.
As a 3rd year stage sponsor, Sonic.net delivered more speed than ever before to keep up with the race production team’s needs. Uplink speed was needed most, and this year we provided our FlexLink Ethernet 30/30Mbps symmetric ...
Posted in Access | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
Wireless is magic. You point two antennas at each other over a span of miles, and broadband comes out the other end. Most of the time.
I hate ...
Posted in Access, Wi-Fi | 16 Comments »
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Residents in Sebastopol have been noticing our construction crews in the area over the last few weeks, so we can't keep it a secret much longer: Fiber coverage is expanding!
With the first phase of construction complete and online today, we've got customers enjoying both 100Mbps and Gigabit speeds today. Wondering ...
Posted in Access | 54 Comments »
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Today we have made changes to our Fusion service in order to further simplify the product, to improve service delivery, and to lower costs.
Previously Fusion was a bit confusing - it's one product, but was offered four different ways: residential single-line, residential dual-line, business single-line and business dual-line. This meant ...
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
SANTA ROSA, CA - December 14th, 2010- Sonic.net today announced it has filed a permit application to build a Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) network in San Francisco. The application encompasses an initial pilot region of two thousand homes in the Sunset District, and describes a five-year build-out plan which would reach most ...
Posted in Access | 28 Comments »
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Our Fusion Broadband+Phone service is undergoing continual ongoing improvement, with new features and greater reach as the number of customers rapidly grows.
Our last few new features have been on the voice side, so it's time for something new on the broadband side of the product.
When we launched Fusion we wanted to keep ...
Posted in Access, Features | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
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You have probably heard people talk about IP addresses, and perhaps you nod your head knowingly, or say "uh-hu" when us techie folks mention them, hoping we will quickly move on to a more interesting topic soon. But there's a lot ...
Posted in Access, Features | 4 Comments »
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
I have always felt that our customers buy connections from us to use them. Abuse them. Hog up big chunks of the web. Fill up those tubes! And to just generally consume what they are buying: a big fast broadband pipe, to use however they see fit.
As more and more broadband ...
Posted in Access, Policy | 29 Comments »