About Bangladesh
Dhaka concentrates most of Bangladesh's commercial internet infrastructure, from the BDIX national exchange to the terrestrial circuits that haul capacity in across India. International bandwidth also lands on the southern coast at Cox's Bazar and Kuakata. Local presence is what separates serving more than 130 million internet users directly from routing their traffic out to Singapore and back.
Zenlayer operates 3 data centers in Dhaka, with IP transit at every site, bare metal cloud (BMC) at two, Cloud Connect at two, and Cloud WAN and CDN at one each. The Bangladesh footprint is covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, giving regulated buyers in banking, telecoms, and commerce a compliance baseline they can hand to their own auditors.
Bangladesh operates under BTRC licensing, which governs how international capacity is bought and resold, and most operators pair a Dhaka footprint with a site outside the country. Zenlayer also runs infrastructure in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, so teams commonly start in Dhaka for audience proximity and add capacity to the west as traffic grows.
Compute in Bangladesh
Bare metal cloud (BMC) is available at two of Zenlayer's three Dhaka data centers, provisioned as dedicated single-tenant servers. Teams choose bare metal here for predictable throughput under peak evening load, for media transcoding that suffers from contention, and for hardware sized against a known local audience rather than an autoscaling bill.
Deployments include origin and edge caches for OTT and short-video platforms serving local viewers, e-commerce servers near local payment gateways, game servers for players otherwise served from Singapore, and analytics nodes keeping user records in the country. Public cloud instances are not sold from Dhaka, so workloads needing them pair with a market further west.
Enterprise hardware
Intel Xeon Scalable. Up to 384 GB RAM. NVMe and SSD storage tiers.
Premium network
100+ Tbps backbone with dynamic, latency-optimized routing.
Instant provisioning
Deploy via Terraform, REST API, or the point-and-click zenConsole.
Flexible billing
Hourly pay-as-you-go with discounts for longer commitments.
Networking in Bangladesh
IP transit is available at all three Dhaka data centers and is the anchor product in Bangladesh, where the cost of international capacity, purchased under BTRC licensing and hauled over submarine and terrestrial routes, shapes the economics of serving local users. Cloud Connect runs from two of the sites, Cloud WAN from one, and CDN from one.
Cloud Connect provides private links into hyperscaler regions outside Bangladesh, which matters because the major public clouds do not run a region in the country and application tiers are usually split between a Dhaka edge and a cloud region abroad. Cloud WAN, sold from one site, is the software-defined option for teams that want the Dhaka node run as part of a wider network rather than as an island.
IP Transit
Blended carrier routes tuned for the lowest real-world latency.
Cloud Connect
Private, dedicated links into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
Cloud WAN
Software-defined backbone spanning 290+ points of presence.
Edge protection
Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation with real-time traffic filtering.
Colocation in Bangladesh
Zenlayer's Bangladesh footprint is 3 data centers, all inside the Dhaka metro, and the footprint is covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Rack-level colocation is not sold from these sites, so Dhaka capacity is delivered as managed bare metal, IP transit, and private connectivity, and customers wanting to rack their own hardware are served from other markets in the region.
Two market realities shape how Bangladesh deployments get planned. Utility power in Dhaka is backed by on-site generation at commercial facilities rather than assumed to be continuous, and importing servers means clearing customs and equipment rules that can add weeks, which is why most teams start on hardware already installed rather than shipping their own.
Carrier-neutral
Access to 400+ carriers and major regional peering exchanges.
Flexible power
Standard and high-density rack configurations on request.
Secure access
Biometric entry, CCTV, and 24/7 dedicated remote hands.
Rapid turn-up
Cage-to-production cross-connects in days, not weeks.
Cities in Bangladesh
Data Centers in Bangladesh
3 totalDhaka
Bangladesh's capital and the access point to a 170M-person market in the Bay of Bengal.
3 DCs
Dhaka
Bangladesh's capital and the access point to a 170M-person market in the Bay of Bengal.
| Services | ||
|---|---|---|
| AP-Dhaka2 (Aamra)DAC2 |  | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud ConnectCDN |
| AP-Dhaka3(BTCL)DAC3 | Bangladesh Telecommunications Company | ColoBMCIP TransitCloud WANCloud Connect |
| AP-Dhaka4(Radiant)DAC4 | Radiant Communications | ColoIP Transit |
FAQs
Common questions about deploying compute, networking, and colocation infrastructure in Bangladesh.
What does Zenlayer's Dhaka footprint cover?
<p>All 3 of Zenlayer's Bangladesh data centers sit in the Dhaka metro. The footprint is concentrated there because Dhaka holds the BDIX national exchange, the domestic carrier interconnects, and the terminating end of the terrestrial and submarine capacity that carries the country's international traffic. Across that footprint Zenlayer holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 attestations.</p>
Which workloads suit bare metal in Dhaka?
<p>Bare metal cloud (BMC) is sold from two of the three sites and tends to carry work that is sensitive to contention or to distance from the user: video origins and caches for OTT and short-video platforms, checkout and payment paths for local commerce, game servers for players otherwise reached from Singapore, and analytics tiers that keep records inside the country. Sizing is fixed against a known local audience rather than autoscaled.</p>
How does the cost of international bandwidth shape a Bangladesh deployment?
<p>International capacity in Bangladesh is bought under BTRC licensing and carried over submarine landings on the southern coast and terrestrial circuits across India, both of which are contended at peak. Anything answered from outside the country pays that cost on every request. A Dhaka node with local IP transit terminates traffic domestically and leaves the paid international path for origin fetches and replication.</p>
Can I buy colocation or public cloud instances in Bangladesh?
<p>No. Rack-level colocation, public cloud instances, and Global Internet Access are not offered from Bangladesh today. What is available in Dhaka is IP transit at all three data centers, bare metal cloud at two, Cloud Connect at two, and Cloud WAN and CDN at one each. Deployments that need the missing pieces combine a Dhaka node with a Zenlayer market elsewhere in the region.</p>
Which Zenlayer markets pair well with a Dhaka node?
<p>Zenlayer operates in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, along with other markets in the wider region including Egypt, Israel, and Kuwait. A common pattern is an audience-facing node in Dhaka handling delivery and session termination, with heavier compute, storage, and cloud on-ramps placed in a larger market to the west where public cloud regions are present.</p>
Deploy Infrastructure in Bangladesh
Zenlayer's team can scope a Dhaka footprint against your traffic profile, from local IP transit and bare metal sizing to private links out to the cloud region you already run in.