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Sonar Software

3 min read

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 connection type, this article should clarify the various methods Sonar offers of provisioning your...

Sonar Software

8 min read

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...

Sonar Software

8 min read

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...

Sonar Software

15 min read

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....

Sonar Software

2 min read

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...

Sonar Software

3 min read

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...

Sonar Software

6 min read

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...

Sonar Software

9 min read

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...

Sonar Software

1 min read

Sonar & COVID-19

COVID-19: How Sonar is helping our partners In this time of uncertainty, the service that you, our ISP partners provide, has become paramount to the...

Sonar Software

1 min read

COVID-19 announcement

COVID-19 Announcement As the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread within North America, Sonar Software Inc. has made the decision to...

Sonar Software

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...

Sonar Software

Introducing the ALL NEW Powerful Sonar

Growing ISPs face a range of challenges that lead to profit erosion. Changing market conditions and increasing customer expectations are making...

Sonar Software

1 min read

Sonar Unveils The Future of ISP Billing and Management Software

DEBOLT, AL — Sonar Software presented their greatest advance at WISPAPALOOZA 2019 at a sold-out event in Las Vegas, NV. Version 2 is a “big...

Sonar Software

The Globe And Mail ranks Sonar No. 23, Canada’s Top Growing Companies

Sonar ranks No. 23 with three-year growth of 2,028% on the inaugural Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies. We have had an...

Sonar Software

2 min read

Sonar Software Inc. Ranks No. 11 on the 2019 Startup 50

DEBOLT, Alberta–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Canadian Business and Maclean’s today ranked Sonar Software Inc. No. 11 on the 2019 Startup 50 ranking of Canada’s...

Sonar Software

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...

Sonar Software

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...

Sonar Software

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...

Sonar Software

1 min read

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 Software

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...