GNG News Guy
03-04-2008, 10:00 AM
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California-based ISP Sonic.net (http://www.sonic.net/sales/flexlink/) is in the process of becoming a CLEC, and will ultimately offer ADSL2+ speeds to residential users. Sonic CEO Dane Jasper tells us they've launched in their home market of Santa Rosa and are now offering business customers Ethernet, T1, Dual-T1 and ADSL2+ services. Residential service over their new network is coming in a few months -- Jasper telling us they have some twenty COs planned for the Bay Area this year.
That's an interesting reversal for an industry that's seen more than its fair share of CLECs die over the years. Like TekSavvy (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/86324) in Canada, Sonic has made a niche via accessible executives and customer service (see Sonic's reviews (http://www.thegng.org/comments/896)). Jasper has been very active discussing the new deployments with our users in the forums (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19999358-ADSL2-bonding-market-areas-CLEC-and-kitchen-sink), and has also blogged about (http://corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/02/22/30mbps-to-tyes-house/) the process of testing pair-bonded ADSL2+ lines capable of providing 30Mbps.The loops to the house are each running about 15Mbps sync. The maximum sync that ADSL2+ can deliver is 24Mbps. But like ADSL1, which can do 8Mbps, in the real world we expect a slightly lower level. In ADSL1, the maximum practical speed is generally 6Mbps for most locations, and for ADSL2+, I think we ll be real happy if we see 20Mbps as the top end in the real world.
Jasper is saying that most residential customers will see speeds in the 15-16Mbps downstream range.
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California-based ISP Sonic.net (http://www.sonic.net/sales/flexlink/) is in the process of becoming a CLEC, and will ultimately offer ADSL2+ speeds to residential users. Sonic CEO Dane Jasper tells us they've launched in their home market of Santa Rosa and are now offering business customers Ethernet, T1, Dual-T1 and ADSL2+ services. Residential service over their new network is coming in a few months -- Jasper telling us they have some twenty COs planned for the Bay Area this year.
That's an interesting reversal for an industry that's seen more than its fair share of CLECs die over the years. Like TekSavvy (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/86324) in Canada, Sonic has made a niche via accessible executives and customer service (see Sonic's reviews (http://www.thegng.org/comments/896)). Jasper has been very active discussing the new deployments with our users in the forums (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19999358-ADSL2-bonding-market-areas-CLEC-and-kitchen-sink), and has also blogged about (http://corp.sonic.net/blog/2008/02/22/30mbps-to-tyes-house/) the process of testing pair-bonded ADSL2+ lines capable of providing 30Mbps.The loops to the house are each running about 15Mbps sync. The maximum sync that ADSL2+ can deliver is 24Mbps. But like ADSL1, which can do 8Mbps, in the real world we expect a slightly lower level. In ADSL1, the maximum practical speed is generally 6Mbps for most locations, and for ADSL2+, I think we ll be real happy if we see 20Mbps as the top end in the real world.
Jasper is saying that most residential customers will see speeds in the 15-16Mbps downstream range.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/SonicNet-Making-Strides-Toward-Becoming-CLEC-92346)