Transport & Infrastructure

IPLC

International Private Line Circuit (IPLC)

Batelco offers your business the ultimate layer 1 solution for your wide area network connectivity requirements.
Our IPLC provides you with dedicated, digital, point-to-point links of a defined bandwidth that is always-on at a flat rate for unlimited usage. Solely dedicated to your business needs, IPLC ensures secure, minimal delay and high quality connections at guaranteed speeds, ideal for interactive communications.

We extend your business across the globe through our joint ventures, POPs and partnerships. Whether via cable or satellite links we guarantee you secure resilient connectivity.

Batelco’s IPLC provides a seamless solution ideal for data, images, and voice, multimedia or mission critical applications.

Features and Benefits

High availability and efficient connectivity: The service provides a fast, efficient and virtually error free digital connection, which improves data throughput and organisational productivity.
Secure connectivity: The dedicated secure circuit ensures an instant connection to transmit data as often as needed.
Flexibility: An IPLCis transparent to customer networks, and can be used on any type of customer network application.
Choice of various speeds: To ensure that the connection has the capacity to support applications, a arrange of access speeds is available from 256Kbps and above.
One-Stop-Shop: Additional convenience is offered through our One-Stop-Shop (OSS), providing you a single point of contact for provisioning, service enquiry and centralised billing.

IPLC as a Vast Connectivity Solution

International Capacity

Batelco Gulf Network (BGN)

Spanning over 1,400KM of fiber optic cables, BGN is a fully owned and managed, protected terrestrial network by Batelco, connecting the GCC to the Middle East and the world through a single seamless network. The network is built to accommodate the growing telecom capacity needs and requirements while maintaining the highest quality of service for all managed global solutions served by Batelco.

Features and Benefits

Variety of high-capacity solutions based on DWDM technology up to 100G.
Provides shortest Inter-Gulf latency.
Fibre is elevated on electricity pylons and less prone to cable cuts and easier to maintain compared to buried Fibre or submarine cables.
Can be interconnected with other regional submarine cables, providing the customers the options to have protected services on both wet and dry routes
Interconnected with all carriers in the GCC.
Superior 24/7 support quality through Batelco’s Network Operations Center (NOC).
Service level agreements to ensure highest quality and reliability.
Short delivery time through dedicated support.

We offer unprotected and protected wavelength services to destinations across the MENA region over Batelco’s high-quality DWDM network and to destinations outside our network footprint via our strategic partners with the options to provide local access services at both ends of the service.

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Wavelength Services

Batelco’s Wavelength Service is based on a state-of-the-art DWDM technology enabling Batelco to offer its Wavelength Services. The service offers a transparent optical wavelength connection between two locations at a dedicated bandwidth. Batelco can also offer the local loops between the Batelco PoP and customer’s specified end-location restoration of the Wavelength Service and collocation services at cable landing stations.

Benefits

Variety of high-capacity solutions based on DWDM technology up to 100G.
Superior 24/7 support quality through Batelco’s Network Operations Center (NOC).
Service level agreements to ensure highest quality and reliability.
Short delivery time through dedicated support.

Predictable network performance
Transparent to higher protocols (e.g. Ethernet)
Interfaces: Ethernet, SONET, Optical Transport Networking (OTN)

Ideally Suited For

Data center-to-data center connections
Disaster recovery/back-up
Latency sensitive applications
Financial/E-commerce transactions
Big data/large file transfers (research, 3D CAD/CAM)
Streaming HD video

Batelco’s Wavelength Services

IP Transit

IP Transit Service is a service of Internet and transmission designed for service providers that resell internet service requiring a high quality dedicated access to the global internet backbone. The Client must have a unique AS number to apply for the service.

Batelco is represented on the Internet with its own AS number, AS 5416, nationally and internationally and connected to international gateways to access the internet backbone through diversified high-capacity international links to regional and international global carriers and IP Transit providers.

Benefits

Variety of high-capacity speeds up to 100G.
Ethernet interfaces
Superior 24/7 support quality through Batelco’s Network Operations Center (NOC).
Service level agreements to ensure highest quality and reliability.

Ideally Suited For

Local service providers that resell internet service.

Technical

Batelco providers the IP Transit service through its extensive and resilient local SDH network to its Internet Service Platform (ISP).
Batelco’s ISP is built to the highest industry standards with built in redundancy for key elements within the ISP.
Batelco offers a Single Mode Fiber Ethernet interface for each circuit ordered. It is the Service Provider’s responsibility to ensure the required ports/SFPs are available on their equipment to connect the circuit.
eBGP will be used to establish the IP Transit using the public AS numbers allowing both ISPs to manage the prefixes in a controlled and secure environment.
Batelco ISP advertises the Service Providers AS numbers and prefixes to the internet.