Archive for September, 2007

Salinas DSL Maintenance.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Wed Sep 26 11:52:46 PDT 2007 -- Salinas DSL Maintenance. This Friday at 12:01 AM we will be performing maintenance on the backend systems that aggregate our Salinas DSL circuits. This maintenance will change the backend aggregation of this link to match all our other DSL circuits. The maintenance ...

WBA Backbone Improvements.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Wed Sep 26 11:28:11 PDT 2007 -- WBA Backbone Improvements. Yesterday we finished migration of our Santa Rosa wireless network to a redundant ring topology. The towers that provide service to wireless customers in Santa Rosa, Graton, Sebastopol, Kenwood, and Forestville are now redundantly backhauled. The new configuration both ...

Sundry Network Maintenance.

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Wed Sep 26 17:42:53 PDT 2007 -- Sundry Network Maintenance. This Saturday at 12:01 AM we will be performing hardware replacement on gear in our San Francisco POP that has shown signs of potential failure, as well as a minor enhancement to our San Jose POP infrastructure. A small ...

Name server upgrades.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Tue Sep 25 09:12:41 PDT 2007 -- Name server upgrades. All of our public facing Name servers have been upgraded to use PowerDNS (powerdns.com/); PowerDNS is a modern, advanced, and high performance Name Server. This upgrade allows us to continue offering rapid and reliable DNS services to our customers ...

San Francisco POP Network Expansion Complete.

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Fri Sep 14 16:20:02 PDT 2007 -- San Francisco POP Network Expansion Complete. Over the last few months, Sonic.net Network Operations has been working tirelessly to re-engineer and upgrade the core and back-end portions of our San Francisco Point Of Presence, the largest node in our ring around the ...

Scheduled network maintenance.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Tue Sep 11 18:27:55 PDT 2007 -- Scheduled network maintenance. At 12:01AM on Thursday, September 13th, and 12:01AM on Friday, September 14th, we will be upgrading the core switching infrastructure at one of our colo facilities in San Francisco. There should be no associated service interruptions of any kind; ...

Emergency DSL Maintenance.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Wed Sep 5 23:15:17 PDT 2007 -- Emergency DSL Maintenance. One of our DSL aggregation router's uplinks are close to saturation, reducing performance for all customers terminated on the affected router. We will be migrating customers on this router to another router shortly. Customers affected by the move will ...

Bay Area DSL outage.

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Mon Sep 3 21:47:21 PDT 2007 -- Bay Area DSL outage. At 11:40am today, we detected a large number of customers in the Millbrae, Berkeley, and Oakland areas experiencing sync-no-surf connectivity outages. Initial work with AT&T indicated a configuration change in their ATM cloud was at issue, but no ...