CDN from MegaFon will make the games Wargaming more available

On November 24, 2014 MegaFon announced the universal telecom operator the beginning of cooperation with one of the largest world developers of computer games Wargaming. The network of MegaFon of CDN on content delivery became an important part of infrastructure of the unique game Universe of Wargaming.

In 16 years of existence of Wargaming issued more than 15 projects, having won the status of one of leaders of the game industry. The MMO-action of World of Tanks in four years since launch in 2010 attracted more than 90 million users, having received several prestigious awards and having set up two records of Ginness. At the beginning of 2014 in World of Tanks at the same time played more than one million admirers of tank fights from the CIS.

To begin to play in World of Tanks or air battles of World of Warplanes, the beginner needs to download via the Internet a game distribution kit. Moreover, developers on a regular basis release service packs.

Minimize time of downloading of files of installation or updates and to increase thereby availability of a game and comfort of users of the company the service for content delivery optimization — CDN allows.

In Russia MegaFon became the partner of Wargaming in this area. The CDN network of the operator is unrolled in federal scale and 16 regional nodes include and also has connection to points of exchange of traffic in Novosibirsk, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg. Thanks to 140 points of presence in 80 largest cities of the world MegaFon performs optimization of content delivery of any type not only across the territory of Russia, but also abroad.

"Game online resources — very exacting customers of service for high-quality content delivery. For timely loading and updating of game software extremely important that data transfer rate between the client and servers was faultless — the director of work with telecom operators of MegaFon company Teremetsky Alexander comments. — The solution already underwent "testing by fight" when in July through our CDN the next service pack extended. Load of CDN network reached 180 Gbps, and users received packets as fast as possible".

"It is sure that use of CDN technologies of MegaFon company will allow Wargaming to offer new qualitative level to fans of virtual fights and will promote the further growth of service in the Russian market and also beyond its limits" — Vitalius Chiapas, the director of business development of Wargaming in the CIS noted.