founded september 1994 1994 09 founder dane jasper scott doty headquarters santa rosa california united states of america area served california key people dane jasper ceo 1 website www.sonic.com sonic is a telecommunications company and internet service provider based in santa rosa california acting as a competitive local exchange carrier in the san francisco bay area and sacramento . 2 3 contents 1 history 2 services 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit sonic began as an effort to bring network connectivity and internet access to staff and students at the campus of santa rosa junior college . in 1994 sonic began formal internet operations by way of a partnership between dane jasper and scott doty both of whom had worked on the network at santa rosa junior college . in 1995 sonic moved into its downtown santa rosa location . 4 in 2011 after becoming concerned about increasing legal requests for users data mostly related to copyright infringement involving pornography sonic cut the time it stores logs of user activity to two weeks . 5 6 later in 2011 the u.s. government forced sonic and google to turn over e mail addresses of people who had corresponded with wikileaks volunteer and tor developer jacob appelbaum . sonic and google fought the secret court order which ceo dane jasper characterized as rather expensive but the right thing to do and the court agreed to lift the seal on the sonic order to give appelbaum a copy of it . 7 8 in 2012 jasper told torrentfreak that sonic will not be participating in the so called six strikes plan in which major u.s. internet service providers will begin to warn and punish people suspected of infringing copyrights saying that isps are not equipped to police the actions of individuals and that the mpaa and riaa have not invited small independent isps to participate . 9 in april 2015 the company partnered with at & t to expand service using fiber to the node . due to this partnership sonic customers have to follow at & t policies including any access given to the federal government . sonic customers can utilize a vpn to avoid at & t policies and sonic requests court orders for any investigations requested by the law . 10 services edit sonic offers a number of services including 10 gigabit fiber business product 1 gigabit fiber combined voice voip and data service offering up to 1000mbit s per line using passive optical networking 1 with unlimited nationwide land line voice . sonic has full control of the line subscribers are on sonic s ip space . available in select markets currently only northern california locations . 11 fusion adsl2 combined voice pots and data service offering up to 20mbit s per line with unlimited nationwide land line voice . sonic has full control of the line subscribers are on sonic s ip space . fusion vdsl2 combined voice pots and data service offering up to 75mbit s 12 with the same limitations as fusion adsl2 . this subscription is served from a co where sonic has full control of the line cards and therefore remove any artificial limitation in speed that a subscriber can get . the requirement for getting this service is an individual has to be relatively close to the co up to 4000 feet . 13 x2 is also available which will roughly double the speed . fusion fttn vdsl2 combined voice voip and data service offering up to 20mbit s or 50mbit s through bonding x2 with unlimited nationwide land line voice . this is resold at & t u verse . single pair connection is limited to 20mbit s even if the line is capable of more than that ; bonded pair is limited to 50mbit s. sonic has some control of the line such as not enforcing transfer caps but customers are on at & t s ip space . voip connection defaults to g. 729ab 14 and uses less than 50 kbps . 15 flexlink midband ethernet service offering symmetric speeds from 1.5 mbit s to 500mbit s. at & t dsl adsl service delivered over an at & t voice line . this service is obsolete and sonic is no longer accepting legacy adsl1 subscriptions . hosting website hosting services . colocation datacenter colocation in santa rosa ca . dish network bundled television services offered with broadband at a discount . see also edit list of broadband providers in the united states itu g. 992.5 references edit a b c dane jasper interviewed on the tv show triangulation on the twit.tv network clec update . sonic.net . january 5 2008 . retrieved 22 october 2013 . moving outside from isp to osp . sonic.net . july 31 2011 . retrieved 22 october 2013 . the history of sonic . sonic.net . archived from the original on october 7 2010 . retrieved 2010 10 26 . greenberg andy 22 june 2012 . ceo of internet provider sonic.net we delete user logs after two weeks . your internet provider should too . . forbes . retrieved 7 august 2012 . greenberg andy 11 july 2012 . five ways wireless carriers could rein in the government s surveillance of your phone . forbes . retrieved 7 august 2012 . angwin julia 9 october 2011 . secret orders target email wikileaks backer s information sought . wall street journal . retrieved 7 august 2012 . brooke heather 11 october 2011 . how the us government secretly reads your email secret orders forcing google and sonic to release a wikileaks volunteer s email reveal the scale of us government snooping . the guardian . retrieved 7 august 2012 . has your isp joined the us six strikes anti piracy scheme . torrentfreak . 3 august 2012 . retrieved 7 august 2012 . gogola tom . sonic truth . news . bohemian . retrieved 25 august 2015 . https www.sonic.com gigabit fiber internet will sonic upgrade dslams to vdsl2 if not already done . forums.sonic.net . retrieved 5 may 2015 . will sonic upgrade dslams to vdsl2 if not already done . forums.sonic.net . retrieved 5 may 2015 . fusion fttn voip settings . forums.sonic.net . retrieved 14 may 2015 . fusion x2 same as fttn . forums.sonic.net . retrieved 29 april 2015 . external links edit official website newspaper article about fiber optic network in sebastopol interview with sonic ceo dane jasper by leo laporte and tom merritt on triangulation twit.tv retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sonic.net & oldid 742698322 categories 1994 establishments in californiabroadbandcompanies based in sonoma county californiacompanies based in santa rosa californiacompanies established in 1994fiber optic communicationsinternet service providers of the united statestelecommunications companies of the united stateshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 06 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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