Empowering ISPs: The Broadband Blog for Growth and Innovation

Your go-to resource for the latest trends, best practices, and expert insights to help your ISP thrive. Stay ahead with tips on network optimization, customer experience, and more!.

Empowering ISPs: The Broadband Blog for Growth and Innovation

Your go-to resource for the latest trends, best practices, and expert insights to help your ISP thrive. Stay ahead with tips on network optimization, customer experience, and more!.

Stay Connected: Get the Latest in Broadband Delivered to Your Inbox! 

2 min read

Sonar’s Status Page

At Sonar, we created software with the intention of improving the operational efficiency of your Internet Service Provider business. With so many features available within a single window, it’s no surprise that your instance is heavily dependent...

4 min read

Network Monetization & Market Expansion

Whether you’re a large or small Internet Service Provider, your company’s underlying goal is to grow. While expanding into new markets can be an...

3 min read

Bundling for Growth: Service Add-ons to Increase ARPU

Attracting new customers to your service offerings can be a challenge, whether you’re an established player in the market or a new entrant. Balancing...

4 min read

7 Customer Service Tips to Improve the Customer Experience

Whether you’ve been in customer service for years or are freshly starting out, you’ve likely heard some reference to new customers costing more than...

10 min read

How To Reduce Operating Costs & Increase ARPU For Your Multi-Dwelling Unit

Let’s go over a scenario that may sound familiar: Accounting software open on one window, calendar on another with reminders frequently going off so...

3 min read

Cyber Security Tips for Internet Service Providers

Cybercrime has vastly changed in the last 20 years, and the way we protect ourselves has had to change too. These days, hackers are using...

5 min read

DHCP Delivery

For a long time, Sonar has handled DHCP and option 82 requests for large networks using the Sonar DHCP Batcher. Now, this functionality has been...

3 min read

Scale Confidently with Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service

Remember the good old days when software was deployed on physical servers and then tucked away in a cabinet or data center? More often than not tens,...

3 min read

Managing Network Incidents & Reporting Them in Sonar

Operating an Internet Service Provider is becoming an increasingly competitive industry – with both American and Canadian governments providing...

13 min read

How to Leverage Sonar’s Multi-Tenancy to Grow Your Business

There’s never been a greater need for software that can support multiple brands and multiple entities than there is in the current ISP market space....

4 min read

Challenges & Best Practices for Field Technician Scheduling

Scheduling field technicians is unlike scheduling a member of your office staff; it comes with considerations of drive time, stock levels, and the...

4 min read

5 Manual Tasks Holding your ISP Back from Growth

One of the leading causes of errors and accidents in the workplace is human error, just your regular run-of-the-mill mistake, and the reason for this...

2 min read

[Webinar Replay] How to Leverage Sonar’s Multi-Tenancy to Grow Your Business

In today’s ISP market, growth is happening faster than ever. Competition is fierce, and companies are expanding by merging, acquiring, and bringing...

3 min read

How to Reach New Customers and Increase Activations

In other blog posts, such as the Quality of Experience Impact on Reducing Customer Churn, how Sonar facilitates customer retention has been...

5 min read

Transforming Data into Business Insights with Sonar’s Business Intelligence Reporting

Financial health is the cornerstone for an Internet Service Providers’ capacity to deliver a quality customer experience, remain competitive, and...

12 min read

Performance Improvements

Have you ever read the release notes for a new piece of software or app? It’s very common that, amongst the specific changes and improvements, that...

3 min read

Cloud Security vs. On-Premise: Which is right for your ISP?

Cybersecurity is becoming a daily battle for businesses and customers alike. While Customers will run virus scans, avoid suspicious links and use...

4 min read

When to Outsource Customer Support & Why

Customer service is an essential part of your brand reputation and business growth. Without exceptional customer support, your company won’t thrive,...

4 min read

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...

3 min read

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...

6 min read

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...

4 min read

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,...