How CeraLive works
CeraLive takes video from your camera, encodes it on the device, splits it across every connection you have, and reassembles it in the cloud before sending it to your streaming platform. Each stage is designed to keep your stream alive even when individual connections drop or slow down.
Here’s what happens, step by step.
1. Capture
Section titled “1. Capture”You plug in a camera or HDMI source. The CeraLive device reads the incoming video and hands it to the encoder. Nothing leaves the device yet.
2. Encode on the device
Section titled “2. Encode on the device”The device compresses the video into a stream small enough to send over the internet. It watches your available bandwidth in real time and adjusts the quality up or down to match. If your connections are strong, you get higher quality. If they’re struggling, the device backs off to keep the stream flowing rather than dropping frames.
3. Bond across your connections
Section titled “3. Bond across your connections”This is the part that makes CeraLive different from a standard encoder.
Instead of sending your stream over a single connection, CeraLive splits it across all the connections you have available: LTE modems, 5G, Wi-Fi, Ethernet. Each connection carries a share of the stream simultaneously. If one drops entirely, the others absorb the load. If one slows down, the device shifts more traffic to the faster ones.
From the cloud’s perspective, it receives one clean, continuous stream. The multi-link complexity is invisible to your streaming platform.
4. Deliver to the cloud
Section titled “4. Deliver to the cloud”The bonded stream travels across the public internet to a CeraLive cloud receiver. The receiver collects the packets arriving from all your connections and reassembles them into the original stream in the correct order.
From there, the stream passes into the CeraLive platform, where it’s ready to be distributed.
5. Restream to your platforms
Section titled “5. Restream to your platforms”The platform sends your stream to wherever you’re broadcasting: Twitch, YouTube, Kick, or any other destination you’ve configured. You can send to multiple platforms at once.
The short version
Section titled “The short version”Camera → Device encodes → Bonds across LTE / 5G / Wi-Fi → Cloud reassembles → Your platformsThe device handles the hard parts. You point it at a camera, configure your destinations, and go live.