improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message lumison type isp industry internet & communications founded 1996 as ednet headquarters edinburgh key people mark howling nigel shaw matt lovell graeme mackenzie products broadband server hosting server co location private cloud managed hosted applications voip revenue 46.8 m number of employees 200 website pulsant lumison was a uk managed services provider based in edinburgh scotland . acquired by bridgepoint development capital with 3 other companies to form pulsant a company headquartered in reading berkshire it was known as ednet from 1996 to 2004 and pulsant from 2012 . they primarily offer fully managed network solutions and hosted products to smes . 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 managed it services provider into a significant player as a mid market it services firm in the uk . 1 further growth came through the acquisition of colocation services company bluesquare data services and dedipower managed hosting services in 2011 . the business has since rebranded under the name of pulsant . the company now has a turnover of approximately 30m with 130 staff across 5 uk locations . there are 8 data centres in uk and sites in united states amsterdam and hong kong . contents 1 network 2 hosted products 3 broadband & connectivity 4 points of presence 5 references 6 external links network edit 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 . hosted products edit 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 red hat enterprise lamp variants . broadband & connectivity edit 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 . points of presence edit 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 . references edit bridgepoint development capital invests to fuel growth for lumison . lumison . archived from the original on 2011 08 09 . retrieved 2014 07 23 . external links edit www.pulsant.com official company website bdc invests in lumison oct 2010 www.freshbusinessthinking.com face to face communications at an all time low microsoft exchange 2007 lumison managed exchange the whir netbenefit moves into lumison datacentre lumison customer wins microsoft office communication server ocs lumison managed unified communications uc lumison launches pulsant retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 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