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

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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 strong passwords, they expect their personal data to be protected by who they choose to do business...

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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,...

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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...

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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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10 Ways to Streamline Your Support Process

In today’s highly competitive environment, with multiple companies having near identical offerings, it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd;...

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[Webinar Replay] Unleash Potential & Enhance Field Tech Performance

As industries grow increasingly digital and customer expectations rise, managing field operations effectively has become more crucial than ever. In...

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Solving the Data Puzzle, How ISPs Can Leverage Data to Increase ARPU

One of the most popular puzzles of the ’70s was the Rubik’s Cube. In 1974 the Rubik’s Cube was invented by Ernő Rubik and would go on to live in...

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[Webinar Replay] Foundation for Future Growth & Expansion

To survive in a competitive environment and adapt to new market reality, it is vital for Internet Service Providers to continuously evaluate business...

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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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[Webinar Replay] The Customer Experience: Unlocking Network Potential with Sonar & Preseem

Customer satisfaction has become the most important differentiator for broadband providers. In an industry where technology and user demands evolve...

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[Webinar Replay] Mastering Inventory Management for ISPs

Inventory management is essential for any ISP looking to stay competitive and profitable. Inefficient inventory management doesn’t just slow...

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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...