VimpelCom makes mobile viewing more reliable

Russian service provider VimpelCom, which operates under the Beeline brand, has introduced adaptive streaming or Smooth Dynamic Bit-Rate Adaptation (SDBRA) on its mobile network, enabling it to increase the number of successful video views at peak times by 10%, according to the operator.

VimpelCom says it has introduced SDBRA in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Penza, Saransk, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Chita, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk, and will extend it to all parts of Russia by the end of this year.