Bahrain: Beyon Announces Investment of More Than BHD 94 Million in Digital Infrastructure

Bahrain: Beyon Announces Investment of More Than BHD 94 Million in Digital Infrastructure

Beyon has announced a major investment of more than BD 94 Million in state-of-the-art digital infrastructure helping to support the acceleration of Bahrain’s digital transformation and the growth of the country’s digital economy, in a press conference attended by Beyon Chairman Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.

During the event, Beyon CEO Mikkel Vinter announced that Batelco, part of the Beyon group, has joined the SEA-ME-WE 6 (Southeast Asia – Middle East – Western Europe) consortium, which is building a 21,700 km-long undersea telecommunications cable system connecting Bahrain with 14 other countries.

It will offer one of the lowest latencies available between the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Western Europe and will significantly boost Beyon’s global network infrastructure. SEA-ME-WE 6 will have the capability of transferring more than 100 terabits per second. The new subsea cable will create a layer of network diversity and resilience for the heavily used routes connecting the Middle East towards Europe and Asia.

Additionally, Batelco is investing to build a regional subsea cable, the ‘Al Khaleej’ Cable which the Company will fully own, enhancing the region’s data exchange and will extend from Bahrain to other regional countries including Oman, UAE and Qatar. This fully owned subsea cable will