| Type | ISP |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet & Communications |
| Founded | 1996 (as edNET) |
| Headquarters | Edinburgh |
| Key people | Mark Howling, Aydin Kurt-Elli, Richard Morrell, Graeme MacKenzie |
| Products | Broadband, Server Hosting, Server Co-location, Private Cloud, Managed Hosted Applications, VoIP |
| Revenue | £27.6m |
| Employees | 130 |
| Website | www.lumison.net |
Lumison is a UK Managed Services Provider based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was known as edNET from 1996 to 2004. They primarily offer fully managed network solutions and hosted products to SMEs. Recently their client portfolio has expanded with more large businesses and corporates taking advantage of their national network offerings and colocation in their two geographically diverse data-centres. Their USP is superior technical support, with 24x7 telephone and email assistance at every product's core.
Lumison was founded in Leith as edNET in 1996, where its head office remains. It rebranded to the name Lumison in August 2004, and opened a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) dedicated datacentre on a greenfield site in Newbridge, Edinburgh in October 2004 and added a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m2) London Datacentre in Croydon, South London in 2008. This has enabled Lumison to provide additional rackspace for managed hosting, dedicated servers, virtualised servers and colocation (colo).
In October 2010, a majority stake in Lumison was acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital in order to fuel growth from its existing position as a business ISP into a significant player as a mid-market IT services firm in the UK.
Lumison is ISO9001 and ISO27001 certified.
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The Lumison network is based on a Juniper powered IP backbone and Cisco switching fabric in its datacentres and PoPs (see below). It operates a diverse core IP network (AS12703) which peers at LINX and LIPEX. Lumison maintain their own VoIP network which includes a SS7 interconnect with BT (with voice traffic being terminated as SIP using Cisco hardware) as well as a new BT 21CN pure-IP interconnect. Lumison is a registered telecoms operator with Ofcom and operate several geographic and non-geographic number blocks in the UK.
Lumison is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner providing Managed Applications, Managed Hosting and Managed Networks. Microsoft Exchange 2007 and OCS are provided on a Hyper-V virtualised platform enabling rapid provisioning and under-pinned by 24x7 support ensuring maximum service uptime and response. Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS), BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), Microsoft Sharepoint, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM are also available.
Managed hosting services include Microsoft Windows 2008 and RedHat Enterprise LAMP variants.
Lumison provides standard BT Wholesale ADSL, ADSL2+ (21CN) and SDSL products for broadband access. It has also privately unbundled a handful of BT exchanges in Edinburgh & Glasgow. In these areas they offer low-contention 2Mbit/s SDSL and un-contended 5 and 10Mbit/s EFM. It also provides Internet access via multi-carrier leased line or MetroEthernet / LAN Extension.
Lumison operate their core network from their own datacentres in Edinburgh and Croydon as well as Telehouse East and Telehouse Metro in London's Docklands. It has an additional small presence in Manchester that services a transit connection to the USA.
The geographic diversity of its Edinburgh and London datacentres is very attractive to organisations wishing to colocate their equipment outside the Docklands flood-plain.