India’s leading IT consultant Tata Communications, on Monday, extended partnership with Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX), its exclusive cable landing partner in Bahrain, to bid high-speed Optical Transport Network (OTN) connectivity in the country.

Fortified with the OTU-4 (Optical Transport Unit) technology, the TGN-Gulf cable system will deliver customers with a vigorous and manageable data transport infrastructure that can be mounted up past 100Gbps.

The cable system flawlessly assimilates the Middle East countries and delivers straightforward connectivity to Europe, India, and headlong to the globe, the company states

Shaima Al Hamed, Executive Director, Bahrain Internet Exchange (BIX), states, “BIX is excited to combine its regional expertise with Tata Communications global presence to offer end customers a technically superior submarine cable system that opens access to both the East and West parts of the world. The next generation OTU-4 technology supported by TGN helps our customers create an intelligent Software Defined Network (SDN) enabling them to serve their customers.”

Vaneet Mehta, Region Head, Middle East, Central Asia & Africa, Tata Communications, states, “We are happy to further strengthen our partnership with BIX in Bahrain and bring the latest technology to support data-intensive consumer applications like e-commerce, online gaming, mobile, and internet banking, industrial automation, and Internet of Things (IoT) requiring extremely reliable high-capacity networks.”

Vaneet adds, “This will give our global customers and partners in Bahrain open access to our TGN-Gulf cable system with high-capacity low latency data transmissions across the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and European regions.”