Tonight, starting at 1:15am, equipment serving Sacramento telecom POPs, as well as Modesto/Sacramento ATM services went down. We are currently working to resolve the issue as fast as possible.
Update: Service restored at 1:50am. We are working with our transport provider to ensure this does not happen again.
-Tomoc
Tonight, April 11th, starting at 11:59PM, we will be performing maintenance on some of our backbone infrastructure in the San Jose area. Customers may experience brief routing changes but we do not expect any lasting impact.
Update: Maintenance has been postponed.
– Robbie, Tomoc
Update:
All work has been completed as of 1:22am, April 12th.
Tonight, April 11th, 2013, at 11:59pm, we will be performing maintenance and updates on several of our servers. All major work should be completed within an hour. Affected services include customer databases, websites, and mail. Customer impact should be minimal.
— Grant & Joe
Sonic.net System Operations
We are presently investigating widespread reports of static or bad voice connections on inbound calls to customers on our voice network. An update will be provided shortly when we have further info.
-Matt and Brian
Update: We have confirmed this issue was caused by an upstream provider. They have reported it is mostly fixed. We await full confirmation of its resolution along with explanation of the cause.
Tonight, Tuesday April 9th, starting at 11:59 PM, we will be performing maintenance on ATM equipment serving legacy DSL, FRATM, and Biz-T customers. We expect downtime to be less than 10 minutes.
– Robbie, Tomoc
Update: The maintenance has been completed successfully.
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We are performing an emergency reload on equipment serving a subset of legacy DSL, Business-T, and FRATM customers in the Bay Area and Modesto/Stockton area. We will send another update shortly once the maintenance has completed.
-Tim
Update: Maintenance has been completed and all affected customers should be back online.
As of around 11:20PM PST we began experiencing issues with an upstream voice provider for our telecom network. We have confirmed it is an identified issue that they are working to resolve, and have taken steps to reroute our own network to mitigate customer impact.  For the duration of this issue, customers may still experience intermittent inbound calling success.  Further update will be provided upon outage resolution.
-Matt, Nathan and Tim
Update 1:48AM – Our upstream reports that the issue is resolved, and we’re seeing the same. -Nathan
This morning, at around 9:15AM, a DDoS attack towards Sonic.net owned equipment de-stabilized part of our hosting network resulting in the inability to access to the www.sonic.net website and some others. The issue has been handled and access to the sites restored as of 9:45AM.
– Noc and Soc
At 4:15pm, a small subset of legacy DSL subscriber connections became unstable. We are investigating the cause of this issues and are working to stabilize the affected circuits as fast as possible.
Update: All affected subscribers have been migrated to new equipment. Affected customers may have noticed several service interruptions lasting no more than 3 minutes each. Please note that under some circumstances, rebooting the DSL equipment on site may be required.
-Tomoc and Robbie