Feature · Streaming & QoS
Real-time traffic, always in front.
Speedify identifies VoIP, video conferencing, and live streaming traffic automatically and prioritizes it over background traffic. Reduced buffering and packet loss on Teams, Zoom, OBS, and any RTMP or WebRTC platform, without configuration changes to your apps.
Benefits
AUTO-DETECTION
Recognizes real-time traffic on the wire.
Speedify identifies VoIP, video conferencing, live streaming, and gaming traffic by its patterns on the network: packet timing, sizes, and protocol signatures. No SDK integration, no per-app config, no manual port assignments.
PRIORITIZATION
Streams jump the queue, every time.
Downloads, software updates, cloud sync, and general browsing automatically yield when a real-time stream is active. Prioritization happens at the network layer, below the apps, so it works without changes to Zoom, Teams, OBS, or anything else.
ADAPTIVE
Bonded for speed. Duplicated for stability.
Continuous decision between channel bonding (splitting packets across links for max throughput) and redundancy (duplicating packets across links for guaranteed delivery), based on real-time packet loss and latency on each link.
01 · The Basics
QoS, integrated with the bonding protocol.
Conventional QoS lives at the application layer (Zoom has its own bandwidth manager, Teams has its own, OBS has its own) or at the router (DSCP markings, traffic shaping rules that need configuration for every app and every endpoint). Speedify takes a different approach: real-time traffic detection and prioritization are built into the bonding engine itself, applied to every link automatically, with no per-app config and no infrastructure changes.
| Detects real-time streams system-wide | Lifts streams above background apps | Switches between bonding and redundancy | Works on any app, no integration | Reacts to packet loss in real time | |
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SPEEDIFY
Streaming QoS
Stream detection and prioritization run inside the bonding engine. Real-time traffic is recognized system-wide and lifted above background apps on every link automatically. |
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Application-level QoS
Each app manages its own bandwidth and adaptive bitrate. Useful within an app's own traffic budget, but can't see or yield to other apps, and has no awareness of multiple network links. |
Deep Dive · Watch
How Speedify's channel bonding technology actually works.
Walk through the protocol, the per-packet distribution model, the failover logic, and the encryption layer in one detailed explainer. The architecture and the engineering tradeoffs that make Speedify different from a load-balancer or a regular VPN.
02 · Under the Hood
Detect the stream. Move it forward.
Speedify watches every outbound packet and looks for the signatures of real-time traffic: timing patterns, packet sizes, port profiles, and protocol characteristics that distinguish a Zoom call from a Windows Update or a sync. When it identifies a stream, it tags those packets for priority handling and continuously re-evaluates whether to use bonding (split packets across links for max throughput) or redundancy (duplicate packets across links for guaranteed delivery) based on the live state of every link.
PRIORITY BONDED SESSION · LIVE
Priority packet · real-time stream traffic
Background packet · downloads, sync, updates
Session origin · stream detection endpoint
How it works
Four mechanisms, working together.
01
Real-time traffic detection
Pattern matching on packet timing, sizes, and protocol signatures. Identifies VoIP (SIP, RTP), video conferencing (Zoom, Teams, WebRTC), live streaming (RTMP, SRT, HLS), and gaming traffic as it leaves the device.
02
Priority queueing
Real-time packets get sent first on every link. Background traffic (downloads, software updates, cloud sync, general browsing) fills the remaining capacity behind them, not the other way around.
03
Adaptive mode switching
Bonding mode splits packets across links for max throughput. Redundancy mode duplicates packets across links for guaranteed delivery. The switch happens at sub-second granularity based on per-link loss and latency.
04
App-agnostic
QoS happens at the network layer. No SDK integration, no per-app configuration, no DSCP marking. Works with Zoom, Teams, Slack Huddles, OBS, vMix, every WebRTC and RTMP platform automatically.
03 · Inside Streaming Mode
Per-stream, per-millisecond decisions.
In Speedify's channel bonding architecture, Streaming Mode is the default mode. It does two things at once. First, it lifts identified real-time streams above bulk traffic on every link. Second, for each individual stream, it continuously switches between bonding-style behavior (one packet per link, maximum throughput) and redundancy-style behavior (every packet on every link, maximum delivery guarantees) based on the live state of that stream's links. The switch is per-stream, sub-second, and entirely automatic. Background traffic continues to get Speed Mode treatment in parallel.
WHEN LINKS ARE STABLE
Bonding-style behavior
The stream's packets are distributed across every available link. Effective bandwidth approaches the sum of every active link, the same per-packet split that bulk traffic uses in Speed Mode, but with stream packets prioritized in the queue. This is the default state for most streams most of the time.
Bonding-style
· STREAM BEHAVIOR
Mechanism
Per-packet distribution
Optimizes for
Maximum throughput
Active when
Loss < threshold
Bandwidth
Sum of all links
WHEN LINKS DEGRADE
Redundancy-style behavior
The same packet is sent on every available link in parallel. The Speed Server keeps the first copy that arrives and drops the rest. Throughput on that stream drops to the speed of the slowest link, but the stream survives a packet loss spike or a link failure with no visible drop on the receiving end. Other streams stay in bonding-style behavior if their links are still healthy.
Redundancy-style
· STREAM BEHAVIOR
Mechanism
Per-packet duplication
Optimizes for
Guaranteed delivery
Active when
Loss or latency spike
Bandwidth
Capped by slowest link
04 · Deployment
Where Streaming QoS runs.
Streaming QoS is built into the core Speedify protocol, not a separate feature you have to enable or configure. Wherever Speedify runs, the same stream detection, prioritization, and adaptive mode switching apply. No DSCP policy templates, no per-app bandwidth rules, no fleet-wide configuration sweeps when you onboard a new conferencing tool.
A · Device Level
Run Speedify as an app.
Install the Speedify app on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, or Android. Stream detection happens on the device. Real-time apps get their traffic prioritized automatically, with no per-app config and no admin policy push.
Licensing
For businesses, this is provided through a Speedify Teams subscription, which centralizes billing, user provisioning, permissions, and usage analytics across your organization.
Best For
Remote and hybrid workforces, sales and client-facing teams, traveling executives, and individual creators on bonded cellular or unreliable Wi-Fi who need their video calls and streams to stay up.
B · Network Level
Run Speedify on a router.
Run Speedify on a supported router and every device on the LAN gets stream detection and priority bonding automatically, with no per-device install. The router classifies and prioritizes traffic upstream; devices behind it stay unmodified.
Licensing
Network-level deployment is licensed via Speedify for Routers, available two ways:
Speedify for Routers
Add Speedify to a supported OpenWrt router you already own.
Powered by Speedify routers
Hardware with Speedify preinstalled and licensed out of the box. Miri, GL.iNET, and other partners.
Best For
Live production trucks, broadcast vehicles, offices and branch sites with mixed real-time apps, event venues, vessels, aircraft, and any deployment where dozens of devices share a single bonded uplink.
Note
Many businesses run both at once. A router covers everyone in the building. The app travels with people who leave it. For OEMs and software vendors, Speedify's channel bonding can also be licensed as an SDK that embeds into your own iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, or Linux product. See Powered by Speedify.
04 · In production
Where streaming QoS earns its keep.
Streaming QoS matters most where the network is shared, the link quality is uneven, and the stream is the thing that can't drop. Sales calls during the day, broadcast pipes during a live event, remote workers on hotel Wi-Fi at 8pm Tuesday. A short list of where Speedify's Streaming QoS is already running today.
Spotlight
Speedify + Starlink
Bond multiple Starlink dishes, plus cellular and any wired link, into one resilient network with Streaming QoS running across all of it. Real-time streams stay smooth across satellite handoffs, brief obstructions, and weather. Built for vessels, aircraft, remote sites, and live broadcast.
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LIVE STREAM · ACTIVE
Dish 01
142 Mbps
Dish 02
128 Mbps
5G LTE
87 Mbps
Stream mode
Bonding
Stream drops
None
Maritime
Vessels, yachts, and offshore platforms
Bonded Starlink, cellular, and Wi-Fi keeps video calls and live streams smooth across satellite handoffs, weather, and the obstructions that come with being in motion at sea. Crew calls, bridge communications, and broadcast uplinks all stay clean.
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Aviation
Inflight Wi-Fi that doesn't drop
Bonded Starlink Aero, Ku/Ka, and ATG with Streaming QoS keeping video calls and live streams in their priority lane across satellite handoffs at altitude. Passengers stay on their meetings, crews stay on their comms, broadcast uplinks stay live.
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Remote Operations
Mining, oil & gas, construction, defense
Whole-site bonded coverage with Streaming QoS lifting voice, video, and telemetry above bulk uploads. Remote technician video calls, inspection drone uplinks, and field team comms hold up where any single link wouldn't.
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Live Broadcast
Field, sports, and breaking news
Source-to-server video feeds that don't drop on air. Streaming QoS keeps live streams in the priority lane while redundancy mode kicks in the moment a link starts losing packets. Works alongside LiveU, TVU, Dejero, and Haivision.
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Get in touch with Speedify
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