Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), a telecom
operator in Russia and the CIS countries, announced the deployment of Flash
Networks’ Harmony Mobile Internet Services Gateway to optimize the volume of
mobile data traffic.
With this deployment, MTS is able to reduce
content and web page download times and increase mobile Internet speed.
Flash Networks’ Harmony optimizes picture,
video, and other mobile data to ensure the fastest download speed regardless of
mobile devices. To reduce mobile network traffic load while viewing a video
stream, Harmony applies a special buffering mechanism to allow users to watch
video streams as they load, without downloading the entire video.
MTS launched a pilot project to test the
technology for all customers in Murmansk. By the end of 2011, the new traffic
optimization technology will be available to all users of the MTS unlimited
mobile Internet in Russia. The solution was developed by Flash Networks and
integrated in MTS’ network together with the Russian system integrator
Technoserv.
“The solution introduced by MTS will
provide our customers with faster and more convenient Internet access as the
up-to-date text and multimedia compression technology applied by Flash Networks
optimizes data in a way practically imperceptible to the human eye,” said
Sergei Stepanyuk, head of Data Transmission Department at MTS.
“Using the data optimization platform
allows us to reduce our mobile network data transmission load by almost 40
percent and our transit load by 30 percent, ultimately resulting in faster
Internet speeds and better quality of data services for our users,”
Stepanyuk added.
“Harmony enables MTS to optimize up to
90 percent of its mobile Internet traffic, including web and video
applications, and to provide complete data services to its subscribers,”
said Merav Bahat, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Flash Networks.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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