COMMUNITY NEWS
Batelco Further Strengthens its Capabilities over BGN by Adding a New Protected Route
Jan 14, 2019 3:18 PM
Adel Al Daylami, Chief Global Business Officer
In line with its efforts to provide world class global services to
support the Kingdom’s endeavors to become a major hub for ICT and data movement,
Batelco, the leading provider of digital solutions in the Kingdom of Bahrain
announced the enhancement of its Batelco Gulf Network (BGN) by adding a new
protected route over the network.
The BGN, launched in 2018, runs over the state-of-the-art Optical Transport
Network (OTN) and meets the demand for reliable high bandwidth connectivity and
capacity serving the different needs of global services and customers supporting
up to 8.8Tbps of capacity providing connectivity to all GCC countries. Batelco
now has increased its investments in the network, allowing customers to opt for
protected solutions using the new protected route to achieve more resiliency
and ensure higher uptimes and redundancy.
Batelco is now amongst the top providers in the GCC offering protected solutions over terrestrial cable systems. The BGN is now more robust to mitigate the risk of cable cuts and outages, which can effect customers’ core operations in addition to providing a unique value through interconnectivity with other regional and global terrestrial and submarine cable systems, thus introducing a fully protected ring on both terrestrial and submarine routes.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Adel Al Daylami, Chief Global Business Officer said, “As part of its comprehensive plans, Batelco is keen to establish a robust national and international infrastructure and this enhancement of BGN is one of the initiatives which supports the Company’s vision toward building a cloud-centric foundation to foster innovation in the Kingdom and the region.”