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Pulse, Polling, and PHP

We recently released a new network poller for Sonar. Here’s some background on how it works! Network monitoring is a necessary part of running any ISP. Just as we have to monitor our infrastructure to keep Sonar running smoothly, an ISP has to...

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Being Cloud Native

Learn why Sonar runs in the cloud, and why we don’t (and can’t) offer the ability for it to be run locally, and why this is a good thing for you....

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Consuming the Sonar API

In the first three articles in this series, I walked you through how to use the API using GraphiQL, a web based tool included in Sonar. Now let’s...

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Mutations in the Sonar API

In GraphQL, a mutation is something that changes data. Whether you’re creating, updating, or deleting, running a mutation will always cause data to...

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A Deeper Dive into the new Sonar API

In my last article, I talked about the basic structure of the new, GraphQL powered Sonar API and showed you how to construct some basic queries. If...

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The New Sonar API

Welcome to the first part of the Sonar GraphQL API series. In this set of articles, I’ll teach you how to use the new, powerful GraphQL API that...

CEO Simon Westlake on The BrothersWISP

Check out the interview with our CEO Simon Westlake on The BrothersWISP where he shares Sonar’s vision of partnering to make business simple, the new...

Microsoft Airband Summit

Sonar’s CEO Simon Westlake speaking at the Microsoft Airband Summit. Sonar is a proud partner of the Microsoft Airband Initiative. The Microsoft...

We’ve partnered with Microsoft!

I’m very pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with Microsoft on their Airband project. Airband is an initiative that Microsoft has started to...

WISPAPALOOZA is almost here!

We’ll be at WISPAPALOOZA in just a few days, and I hope to see many of you there. We’re running a training session on Monday, and there’s still time...

Reduced support on Victoria & Memorial Day

Please note that our Canadian staff will observe Victoria Day on Monday, May 21 and our U.S. staff will observe Memorial Day on Monday, May 28th. Our...

Sonar 1.7 out now!

Sonar 1.7 is out now! The big new feature in 1.7 is geofencing for scheduling, but you can check out the entire changelog here. We’re still hard at...

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Welcome to the latest Sonar team members!

I’m very happy to officially welcome two new members to the Sonar team – Shane MacDonald, previously Senior Accounts Manager at KP Performance, and...

Sonar 1.6 coming soon!

Sonar 1.6 will be out in the next few days, bringing integration with Incognito for DOCSIS provisioning. We’re excited to see what the cable...

Joint Preseem/Sonar webinar

I’ll be presenting a joint webinar with Preseem on February 13th – hope you can attend! The webinar will cover new features in Sonar 1.5, and how you...

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Sonar 1.5 and Sonar 2.0

Sonar 1.5 is on the horizon, and it’s got some goodies in it. The big new feature is an integration with Avalara, which enables automated tax...

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The last few months

Things have been very hectic in the last few months since our WispMon acquisition! We’ve been hard at work migrating WispMon customers over to Sonar,...

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Our acquisition of WispMon

Sonar, an industry leader in ISP billing and OSS solutions, today announced that it has acquired WispMon, a prominent ISP billing and OSS platform...

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NuTEQ completes integration with Sonar

NuTEQ Completes Integration with Sonar Software Alpharetta, GA – (August 14, 2017) – NuTEQ Solutions, LLC, a SaaS provider of mobile customer care...

Sonar 1.4 out today!

Sonar 1.4 is officially released, and it’s chock full of new features. The major new feature is Pulse, our new module that automatically maps the...

Sonar 0.6 now available!

Sonar 0.6 is now available, bringing data usage tracking, usage based billing, a completely customizable customer portal, and much, much, much more....

Automatic network mapping

Sonar 1.4 is coming soon, and the new major feature we’ll be releasing is our automatic network mapping module. This module uses the Sonar poller to...