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Mobile TeleSystems (News - Alert), a telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS countries, announced that it has deployed Flash Networks’ Harmony Mobile Internet Services Gateway (News - Alert) for optimizing the volume of mobile data traffic.

“We are pleased to offer MTS the most advanced solution for managing traffic while providing mobile Internet services,” Merav Bahat, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Flash Networks said. “Harmony enables MTS (News - Alert) 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.”

“MTS has earned a reputation as one of the most innovative operators in Russia and the CIS countries. By choosing our solution, they have significantly strengthened their leading role in wireless data transmission services,” Bahat added.

It was revealed that this deployment will enable MTS to reduce content and Web page download times besides increasing mobile Internet speed.

Flash Networks’ Harmony optimizes picture, video, and other mobile data thereby making it possible for fast downloads irrespective of the mobile device being used to access the Internet. The devices can be a mobile phone, tablet, or PC via 3G-modem.

To reduce mobile network traffic load while viewing a video stream, Harmony leverages a special buffering mechanism which will let users watch video streams as they load, without downloading the entire video, explained officials. 

In order to test the deployment technology MTS launched a pilot project for all customers in Murmansk. The company plans to launch the new traffic optimization technology by the end of 2011 to all users of the MTS unlimited mobile Internet in Russia.

The solution was developed by Flash Networks (News - Alert) and integrated in MTS’ network along with the Russian system integrator Technoserv, added officials.

Sergei Stepanyuk , Head of Data Transmission Department at MTS, revealed, “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.”

Stepanyuk further noted that by using the data optimization platform there is a possibility to reduce mobile network data transmission load by almost 40 percent and transit load by 30 percent. This will result in faster Internet speeds and better quality of data services for users.