Dubai, UAE, 17 April 2014: BSO Network Solutions today announced that it is expanding its existing presence in datamena - the carrier neutral data centre and connectivity platform based in the UAE and serving the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. 

BSO, which has active capacity going Westbound to Europe both via submarine cable and terrestrial paths, and eastbound capacity via submarine cable to India and Asia, has established datamena as its regional hub and submarine capacity gateway between Asia and Europe. 

“As BSO continues its Global expansion program, further investing into Dubai is an exciting step,” said Michael Ourabah, CEO, BSO Network Solutions. “datamena has been very supportive in helping bring our global capability accessible to the GCC area’. Our unique offering with lowest latency 111ms London – Dubai along with high-availability infrastructure and services has already proven successful to our existing customers in UAE. At BSO, we are very excited to expand our partnership with datamena and look forward to support the growing business community in the UAE and in the region.”

“datamena is about helping our customers to connect to growth opportunities, and we are pleased to see that BSO achieving success with its customers by leveraging our platform”, says Mahesh Jaishankar, Vice President of datamena. “BSO is now deepening its regional connectivity through peering on the UAE-IX, hosted in datamena. Other datamena customers will be able to benefit from BSO’s services by interconnecting directly with them in datamena. ”

BSO Network Solutions joins the rapidly growing ecosystem of more than 40 customers interconnecting through datamena’s neutral platform in the UAE, provided in alliance with Equinix.