Quote Monday. Install Friday.

Two day quote validity. Six month lead times. Half the appliances you specced last quarter are out of stock. This is the hardware supply chain right now, and it's not getting better any time soon.

The same TetherX deployment runs on a Raspberry Pi, a refurbished mini-PC, and a Dell PowerEdge - whatever hardware you can actually source today.

The Hardware Crisis Is Killing Deals

You quote on Monday. By Friday the price is stale. By the time the kit ships, your client has moved on or moved to a competitor who happened to have stock on the shelf.

The traditional model - software locked to specific hardware appliances - made sense when supply was reliable. Today it's an anchor. Every appliance backorder is a job you can't close.

Use What You Can Actually Get

TetherX runs on whatever hardware you can lay hands on this week. Existing servers already racked at the site. Refurbished enterprise gear from the secondary market. Mini-PCs from your spare-parts shelf. Even a Raspberry Pi at a remote gate.

• Existing kit - deploy onto servers and mini-PCs already on site. No rip and replace
• Refurbished and second-hand - enterprise gear off the secondary market hits the same spec at a fraction of the price
• From Pi to rack - a Raspberry Pi for a few cameras at a remote gate, a full server for a 200-camera warehouse, the same software either way
• Works anywhere, on anything - the platform is not tied to one appliance, brand or region. If your usual hardware is out of stock, discontinued, or simply not sold where you are, source whatever you can locally and TetherX runs exactly the same
• Manufacturer agnostic - any ONVIF camera, any access control system, any alarm panel. Mix and match whatever your distributor can actually ship

Same software, same features, same support, regardless of what's underneath.

Scale as Stock Returns

You don't have to wait for a full hardware delivery before you can switch a system on. Land the job now with a handful of cameras on a small box, then add the next batch when the rest of your kit lands. No forklift upgrade. No re-quoting. Just incremental growth as supply allows.

For integrators, this means winning bids you would otherwise have to walk away from. For end clients, it means cameras up and protecting their site weeks or months sooner than the alternative.

Be the Integrator That Turns Up With a Working System

The hardware crisis is the best argument we have ever had for software that does not care what hardware it runs on. While your competitors are still chasing their distributor, you are already on site.

Stop losing jobs to lead times. TetherX is live for all customers now.

And finding out costs nothing. The TetherBox software installs in minutes on hardware you already own, and the full platform is free to trial for 30 days - no commitment, no kit to send back.

For the bigger picture, here is why software beats hardware, and why integrators choose TetherX.