OREANDA-NEWS. Batelco Bahrain’s leading integrated communications’ solutions provider has announced that it has selected datamena, the carrier neutral data centre and connectivity platform based in the UAE and serving the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, to deploy apoint - of - presence (PoP).

Batelco has chosen datamena because it acts as a hub where regional and international carriers are present, which makes it easy to interconnect and provide different services. The deployment will serve Batelco Bahrain and the Batelco Group.

Batelco Chief Global Business Officer Adel Al - Daylami said: “Batelco is honoured to partner with an established platform like datamena. Our new PoP guarantees that our customers will have access to more options and an enhanced portfolio of global services, as we intend to offer services like International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) layer 2 and 3 , and Ethernet over SDH (EoSDH) .