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How to Transform Your Field Operations with a Field Tech Mobile App

With the rapid advancement in technology comes a shorter depreciation period. Combining this with an ever-growing population means that natural evolution is an expanding field service industry. However, this expansion also comes with enhancement;...

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Why Customer Portals are the Future of Customer Satisfaction

If you’ve ever subscribed to a provider offering Software-as-a-Service, you’ve likely had the pleasure (or displeasure, depending) of using a...

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Scaling Timeseries Data

Scaling timeseries data is a painful endeavor, and one we’ve had to deal with since the early days of Sonar. In this post, I’ll walk you through some...

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Don’t let Legacy Systems Impede your Growth

Legacy software is, contrary to the definition of “Legacy”, generally regarded in a fairly negative fashion. Whether from an operability standpoint,...

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How to Protect Your Data When an Employee Leaves

Although there is significant debate on how frequently individuals change careers, due to the opacity of what actually constitutes a “career change”,...

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Security & Advantages of Sonar in the Cloud

Cloud-based solutions, cloud-based security, and Software as a Service (Saas) are all terms that grow increasingly more common and are quickly...

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Provisioning Customers & Devices in Sonar

Whether you’re a new Internet Service Provider or you’ve been serving customers for some time but want details about exactly what Sonar does for your...

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Building a Device Mapper

So, you want to contribute a device mapper to the Sonar poller. Great! Here’s a walk through on how to get started. First, you’ll need a copy of the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...