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In the world of network and systems monitoring, you’re bombarded by a billion (small exaggeration for the sake of alliteration, but not by much) three- and four-letter acronyms. Engineers love long names for stuff, and love even more converting those long names into acronyms. LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol for those who aren’t network ninjas), SNMP, WinRM, WMI, DNS, LAN, WAN, VPN, DHCP, TCP, HTTP, FTP, MPLS, IPAM, NOC… the list is almost endless. Luckily the wicked smart engineers that built Lumics network and systems monitoring understand what all these acronyms mean, and how to help other wicked smart engineers utilize and monitor them all successfully.

Your network engineers make sure your bandwidth is optimal. Lumics has their back. Lumics is the tool of choice for your network and systems warriors protecting the communications and infrastructure that keeps your business, and your world, running smoothly. #bandwidthboysforlife

At Lumics we work hard, but it’s no hustle. It’s a grind to be the best at what you do. We compete with companies with hundreds of millions in funding, hundreds or thousands more employees than we have, big fancy campuses, and millions in marketing budget. But we still win. We win with a phenomenal product, designed by network and systems engineers for network and systems engineers. And we win with fanatical customer support. We care about every customer – regardless of size – and we want them to win. That makes Lumics the tool of choice for the engineers working around the clock to help their companies win.

Your network can become a pretty wild mess. You need experts to help you tame it and navigate it – and it’s no game. Your network and systems engineers are in that digital jungle every day keeping your data safe and moving from one place to the other as quickly as possible. Lumics is the weapon of choice for those intrepid defenders of your network jungle.

28 years ago a genius kid solved a seemingly impossible math problem on a university blackboard. 8 years ago several other genius kids solved a few more seemingly impossible problems – this time in the world of network monitoring. If you’re lucky, you have a few genius “kids” working for you on your IT team, solving the incredibly challenging problem of keeping your network working perfectly and securely. Lumics is the tool your genius IT team can use to help them pull off that nearly impossible task on a daily basis.

Network and systems engineers spend a lot of their time in the upside down. They often work in the dark, protecting your business and your world from the demons and bad actors that are trying to hack in, steal your most valuable assets, and destroy everything you’ve built. Lumics is the weapon of choice for these unsung heroes, helping them monitor your network, and when necessary, tap into the hive mind to keep evil away.

Lumics is a network and systems monitoring platform for IT professionals. Lumics helps the people guarding and optimizing your network keep the snakes in the jungle where they belong, not in your business. Merry Christmas!

In the network and systems / IT industry it’s difficult to stand out. All the vendors look the same, sound the same, make the same promises. At Lumics we’ve had a little fun trying to stand out from the crowd. AI has helped a little bit with this, making us funny thumbnails for our website home page video – hopefully just unique enough to catch your eye and make you smile. We try not to take ourselves too seriously. One thing we take very seriously, however, is helping organizations answer this extremely critical question related to their success: What is happening on my network right now? Your network is the lifeblood of your business. Too many of us take for granted the fact that we can instantly communicate with our customers and co-workers anywhere around the globe. We take for granted that money flows instantly and securely from customers to us and from us to our vendors and employees. We take for granted that we can instantly access information about our patients and deliver critical care to them using databases and machines that are all connected. We take for granted that we can deliver products and services to customers securely and quickly regardless of their location. One group that doesn’t take any of this for granted are the IT teams – the network and systems engineers – that work tirelessly to keep us all connected and all the information and money flowing securely and instantly. Lumics is the weapon of choice for this group of network warriors. It is the critical tool helping them to help you succeed.

In a Galaxy far far away there are self-monitoring, self-optimizing, self-healing, and self-updating networks. In our Galaxy, wicked smart network and systems engineers use Lumics to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their networks and infrastructure. Some day we’ll get to self-aware networks, with the help of our A.I. overlords, but until then Lumics is the weapon of choice. Lumics provides a real-time comprehensive view of everything happening on your network, with the ability to instantly troubleshoot issues when they arise. Lumics is the way. This is the path the network Jedis follow.

In 2012, the world met Wreck-It Ralph and fell in love with the big guy. Then 6 years later, right before Thanksgiving in 2018, Ralph came back and broke the internet with his emotionally unstable clones in a global DoS attack. Ultimately Ralph lets go of his insecurities, deletes his clones, and makes amends with his good friend Vanellope. During all the main plot action, however, Lumics’ own Fran G, the systems OG, fixed the intranet for hundreds of customers and saved them from this, and many other, DoS attacks using Lumics network and systems monitoring to stay in front of any network and infrastructure problems. Fran’s story didn’t make even the Director’s cut for the movie, but he will go down in Lumics lore as one of the great unsung heroes of our day.

Not everything is as it seems. Especially in the world of network and systems monitoring. How can you discover the truth? Find out who the good actors and the bad actors really are and respond quickly? Lumics is the answer. Lumics helps MSPs and internal IT teams monitor, optimize, and protect their communications and data flows and keep their networks green and golden.

It’s not easy being a network or systems engineer. You work in the shadows, you drag cables through crawl spaces, you keep outdated and under-spec’d hardware alive as long as possible, and hardly anyone knows you’re there until something goes wrong. Lumics is the weapon of choice for the unsung heroes in that world. You keep the networks running, man! We’re trying to make your job, and your life, easier. We see you. We appreciate you. You keep us all connected and keep the data and dollars flowing! You got this.

No sleight of hand here. Lumics is stealing customers from big incumbents in the network and systems monitoring industry who are changing their prices, ignoring their customers, and tricking them into buying packages of services that include stuff they don’t need. What we do isn’t magic. It’s just putting customers first and consistently doing the right thing.

On July 3, 1985 Marty McFly drove into his past in a flux-capacitor-fueled Delorean, an iconic stainless-steel sportscar that, in appearance, was the great grandaddy of the cybertruck.
When Marty later travelled to 2025 (this visit was cut from the movies due to time constraints ;-)) he met with some of his grandkids who had founded a network and systems monitoring tool called Lumics.
He told them that Lumics was “far out” and that he was proud of what they’d built and the type of people they had become. 
Lumics helps network and systems engineers stay on top of their most valuable asset – their communications and data lifeline – to make sure their businesses keep running smoothly and everything is groovy.

42 years ago, The Right Stuff launched. An exciting and entertaining tribute to the men and women who were willing to push the boundaries of what was possible with flight and space exploration, and who in some cases sacrificed it all to push the country, and the world, forward. Lumics honors the innovators, the inventors, the explorers, the risk-takers, and the bold souls who challenge the status quo to make the world better. Lumics helps MSP and in-house network and systems engineers keep their networks running smoothly. A critical, and mostly overlooked and under-appreciated role – until something goes wrong. Like many of the mostly forgotten, behind-the-scenes heroes of the early space program that, with creativity and ingenuity, helped our astronauts go where no man had gone before, the engineers we work with keep critical systems working in hospitals, airlines, banks, first-responder hubs, military bases, and more. We see you. We appreciate you. Our mission is to make your critical mission easier and less stressful.

Network and systems engineers are the mostly unseen protectors and miracle workers that keep our communications and commerce lifelines (networks and critical systems infrastructure) safe and working properly. Most of the time – especially when everything is good – you may hardly know they exist. Working in the literal closets, crawl spaces, and shadows they keep us connected and keep our hospitals, universities, banks, companies, entertainment, and social spaces operating as expected. Lumics supports these guardians with tools to help them excel at their critical mission. At Lumics we’re helping them serve up network miracles daily.

If you’re a network or systems engineer your job is to keep the bad guys out and the good guys operating at peak efficiency. Lumics helps the digital defenders and optimizers of a company’s lifeblood – their network – stay in front of any potential issues, create and monitor instant communications pathways, and shut down any sparks of trouble before they become infrastructure insurrections.

Based on a fairly believable but nonetheless impressive story of some gritty network and systems engineers, Root Man chronicles the highs and lows, laughter and tears, and friendships forged while building a world-class network and systems monitoring platform (Lumics) with no outside investment. Nobody’s breaking in to your network while Root Man is in the house.

Can you believe the movie Hotel Transylvania just celebrated its 13th birthday? While Lumics isn’t that old, we have been around long enough to know how to help you keep scary stuff from happening to your network, systems and infrastructure. If you’re a network or systems engineer, or own an MSP, check out our website for some genuine treats. Some work-related, some just for fun.

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end, that’s all there is.” Had the internet existed in the 1920’s, we’re confident the Crawley family would have selected Lumics to monitor and manage their network and infrastructure.

“There’s a fine line between clever and…stupid.” At Lumics we have some simple but very clever monitoring solutions for your network and infrastructure. Our mission is to bring some peace of mind and instant problem-solving magic to the network and systems engineers warriors out there. We see you and celebrate you, you NOC stars.

While we try not to take ourselves too seriously, we do take network and systems monitoring very seriously. Your network is the lifeblood of your business. No network, no business. At Lumics, we help our customers and our MSP partners stay on top their network performance so their business always runs smoothly.

Lumics was built by a group of network and systems engineers in an MSP who disliked the current monitoring solutions. Tools like Solarwinds, Logicmonitor, and others were too slow, hard to troubleshoot quickly with, and/or too expensive. At first they used Lumics for their own purposes but eventually word got out and customers started using it too, so the software became its own company and a team recruited to scale it.