Sonic is an Internet Service Provider headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and has delivered internet connectivity for the past 23 years. Sonic has built residential and business fiber-to-the-premise networks in Bay Area cities including San Francisco and beyond.
Business Phone Systems (Hosted PBX, Cloud PBX, Hosted VoIP)
Administrative
Adding / Removing Users - Admin can perform manually
Support - USA-based Tier 1 support
Training - On-Site
Application Integration (out-of-the-box)
Microsoft Outlook
Salesforce
Features
Contact (Call) Center (Queuing, Real-Time Analytics, etc.)
Text Messaging - SMS
Hardware
Phone Rental
Network Architecture
Cloud Architecture
POP - USA - West Coast
SD-WAN
Platform
Metaswitch
Pricing Structure
Monthly per User
Security & Compliance
Compliant - CPNI
Encrypted Voice
SD-WAN
Application Optimization/Peering
8x8
Alibaba
AWS
Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp
Google G Suite
HP Helion
IBM Softlayer
Microsoft Cloud / Azure
Netsuite
Nextiva
Oracle
Rackspace Cloud
RingCentral
Salesforce
Vonage Business
Architecture
On-Prem Appliance, Routed to Cloud Gateways
On-Prem-Only
Features
Admin changes made in cloud portal
Cloud / VoIP Session Reassignment
Deployment: Prof. Install
Deployment: Zero-Touch, Plug-n-Play
IPsec VPN (managed)
Load Balancing ISPs: Inbound Internet Traffic
Load Balancing ISPs: Oubound Internet Traffic
Monitoring: Application Performance
Monitoring: MAC Address Granularity
Monitoring: WAN Performance
Public IP Addresses Provided by SD-WAN Solution
Traffic Shaping: Inbound Internet Traffic
Traffic Shaping: Outbound Internet Traffic
Traffic Shaping: Site-to-Site
Pricing Structure
OPEX
Security
Agnostic to 3rd Party Firewalls
Built-In Standard Firewall
Built-In UTM Firewall (i.e. IPS, Content Filtering, Antivirus, etc.)
Security Decision-Processing: On-Site
Service Area
Europe
USA
Solution Manufacturer
Versa