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Comment on A little bit extra by Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:23:51 +0000

If we were to site a DSLAM at a customer premise instead of in the CO, that might be possible. But that’s an expensive box!

EFM (Ethernet in the First Mile) is a symmetric technology that we do offer to business users under our FlexLink product set. We offer speeds of up to 30Mbps symmetric over eight pairs.

-Dane

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What’s New. » Blog Archive » Sonic.net has the Verizon Droid. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:01:27 +0000

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Comment on A little bit extra by John Gilmore

John Gilmore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:34:57 +0000

Now that you are regularly bonding pairs for higher speed, I don’t understand why you can’t bond a forward-DSL (e.g. 6M/1M) with a backward-DSL (1M/6M)
to provide 7M/7M (or even 6M/6M!) service?

The DSL protocols push X bits over the wire, asymmetrically, but there’s nothing about that wire that makes one end faster than the other. You can push the larger number of bits toward the CO, rather than away from the CO, using the same chips.

Comment on A little bit extra by Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:49:43 +0000

Phuzzie,

We’re under construction in a large number of places at this time, but we’re not providing a details deployment schedule right now. Note the new blog entries I’ve put up about additional markets as they’ve come fully online, we’ll likely continue that.

-Dane

Comment on A little bit extra by phuzzie

phuzzie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:42:54 +0000

Is “the near term coverage schedule” posted in a publicly available location? I’d be interested in knowing how long before we can expect Fusion/ADSL2 service in Fremont

Comment on Fusion Broadband pair bonded by Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:46:45 +0000

Hi Dane,

I’m a loyal sonic.net customer of 8+ years, and been waiting for over a year now to upgrade to ADSL+ in my area (650 AC, 594 prefix). It still doesn’t appear to be available–any idea what I can expect in the coming 6-12 months?

Comment on Fusion Broadband pair bonded by Matt S

Matt S — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:42:21 +0000

I live in B Section of Rohnert Park on the Cotati CO and it would appear as though I am at the far end of the CO range. Line noise levels are high, speeds are low (640kbps) although I think we can sync at maybe 1mbps which is still, very unimpressive.

Any hope for a poor sap in B section? This part of RP seems more or less abandoned by the city and utilities (and maybe with good reason?:)

Comment on Fusion Broadband pair bonded by Jon

Jon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:25:17 +0000

Hey Dane,

Can we get an update on POTS service? And will all Fusion customers get that more or less immediately when it becomes available, or will there be another rollout schedule? Thanks!

Comment on San Rafael deployment complete by Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:34:56 +0000

If I were to make a guess about the future, I’d say that it’s inevitable that we’ll be delivering on Fiber someday.

Central office deployments and our huge new backhaul ring are all steps along a path.

Comment on San Rafael deployment complete by Julian

Julian — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:05:28 +0000

Sonic should install fiber optic! Read this article about a town in Minnesota.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars