Zixi's network bonding feature enables you to utilize multiple NICs and links to divide to divide a stream into several network channels by utilize multiple NICs and links and then subsequently reunite them on at the Broadcaster’s side. Zixi Broadcaster side. For example, a 5 Mbps stream can be streamed using two links, one 3 Mbps link that uses a mobile network and another 2 Mbps Wifi network. The stream is automatically bonded at the Zixi Broadcaster side without any special configuration (as long as the Push input is defined and the two NICs are setup in the machine running the Zixi Broadcaster). Network Bonding can be used for load balancing between multiple links in the following configurations:
- Zixi Feeder with Multiple NICs to a single Zixi Broadcaster NIC - the stream is divided at the Zixi Feeder end and then bonded at the Zixi Broadcaster end.
- Zixi Feeder with Multiple NICs to a
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