MANAMA: Kalaam Telecom and Gateway Gulf have signed a strategic alliance to offer financial and corporate customers the highest level of network and systems reliability available in Bahrain.

Kalaam Telecom is one of the only operators in Bahrain to offer both diverse and redundant links on the last mile connectivity.

Diverse and redundant links ensure a highly efficient level of routing, which is a mechanism to safeguard system against any flaws or delays through a high level of frequency, and therefore efficiency creating minimal room for any errors or delays.

This agreement with Gateway Gulf now means that diverse and redundant routing in addition to its current efficient mode, also includes the Internet.

In addition to the diverse and redundant links, this service will be enhanced by Gateway Gulf's state-of-the-art Tier 4 Data Centre.

The Data Centre will ensure high speed, as well as high-tech capabilities and security technology enhancing the network quality and reliability. This will create a level of unrivalled efficiency for both the companies' client networks.

"Today's business cannot afford to lose its computer systems or Internet access," said Kalaam chief operating officer Richard Green.

"Even those who can manage for a day might opt for a Tier 2 Data Centre. But for any company that cannot afford to be out of communication with the world, where every minute of downtime would literally cost thousands of dollars, they need to use the highest level of connectivity offered - this being 99.995pc by a Tier 4 Data Centre," he said.