Written and fact-checked by Roman Gaufman, Founder & CEO, TetherX

WHERE CAMCLOUD STOPS SCALING

Pure-cloud convenience, multi-site fragility.

The fallback is a memory card, not a recorder

The camera SD card and the optional NAS both work, and an engineer has to specify them deliberately on every camera. Skip that step and the site keeps nothing through an outage. Do it properly and the customer still owns a box nobody is monitoring, holding a day or two of footage.

Cameras have to face the Internet to work at all

Camcloud receives footage only from a camera that can reach out to the public Internet, so the thing being protected is also the thing exposed. There is nothing between the camera and the cloud to ringfence it.

Built for one site, then asked to do twenty

Camcloud targets single-site small business and consumer, and serves them genuinely well. An estate manager wanting multi-site filtering, role-based access and a monitoring path runs into the edge of what Camcloud set out to build.

The installer competes with the vendor's own sign-up page

The reseller and white-label programme has run since 2013 and works. The same website also sells to the end customer directly, so the installer is quoting against the platform they are selling.

AT A GLANCE

Camcloud and TetherX, question by question

The 9 questions an integrator asks on a site walk, answered for both platforms.

Question Camcloud TetherX
What you do with the recorders already on site They come out of the path. Camcloud's own NVR/DVR support article says the platform does not connect to a local DVR or NVR. Each camera has to reach AWS independently, so a retrofit behind an existing recorder needs rewiring. They stay. The TetherBox sits alongside the existing NVRs, DVRs and panels and pulls from them. It runs as software on a server the site already owns, so nobody rips out working kit to start.
Which devices you can connect Any ONVIF or RTSP IP camera the installer can point at the cloud. Camera-agnostic, but camera-only. 1,000+ integrations across 17,000+ device models, plus any ONVIF camera with full features - not a bridged, feature-reduced tier.
What your operators see on one timeline Cameras only. Alarm panels and access control are not in the same dashboard. Video, access control, intruder and automation. One operator, one timeline, one dashboard across all four.
Who monitors your alarms Not an ARC platform. Monitoring-station signalling and alarm-panel integration are absent, so a monitored site keeps a separate path. It stays. TetherX signals Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages, CHeKT and others directly, so the existing ARC, SOC contacts and alarm SLAs carry on.
What you can still do when the Internet drops Depends on the camera. A local cache on the camera SD card or an optional NAS keeps events through an outage. SD retention runs 24-48 hours at a usable bitrate, the NAS is an extra box to source, and neither is the default. Keeps recording and keeps working. Recording, doors and alarms run on the TetherBox on the local network, and the console picks up where it left off when the link returns.
What your uplink has to carry The camera streams to AWS continuously, so the uplink carries the recording itself. A thin line caps how many cameras a site can run. Thumbnails, metadata, and the clips an operator opens or chooses to sync. A thin rural line still records every camera, because recording never leaves the local network.
Who you buy it from Both. A mature reseller and white-label programme since 2013, alongside self-serve sign-up on camcloud.com. The installer can meet the platform's own funnel on the same job. Your installer, always. TetherX sells through the channel only and does not quote end customers direct, so the integrator keeps the account.
What you actually pay for Per camera per month, from a free home tier through roughly $6-10 for motion recording to around $15 for 30-day continuous 2MP. An annual subscription by channel count, from £100/site/year. Not per operator seat, not per analytic, and no concurrent-user cap.
Where your recordings are stored In AWS. Cloud is where recordings live rather than a copy of them, because there is no on-site recorder in the design. On the TetherBox at site by default. Cloud recording is optional per camera, into a UK, EU, US, Canadian, Indian or Australian region the customer picks.

Camcloud column built from: Camcloud pricing, Camcloud NVR/DVR support article, Camcloud product pages.

CAMCLOUD vs TETHERX

Pure cloud vs cloud + TetherBox at every site.

Both cloud-managed VSaaS with channel-friendly history. The honest read on where each one wins and where each one costs you something.

Camcloud

Strengths

Hardware-free deployment - cameras push directly to cloud, no on-site appliance to install or maintain

Published per-camera-per-month pricing from a free home tier through 30-day continuous

13 years independent with a mature white-label and co-brand programme

Trade-offs

Cameras sit on the public Internet to reach the cloud - no ringfencing, no on-site fallback if the Internet drops

Cameras only - no alarms, no access control unified in the same platform

TetherX

Strengths

TetherBox ringfences cameras behind an outbound-only tunnel - cameras never touch the public Internet, footage survives Internet outages

Cameras + alarms + access unified in one platform

Cloud recording optional per camera - local-only, cloud-only or both, all in one platform

Trade-offs

You run one small site with a camera or two, and you want nothing new on the wall. Camcloud is the leaner buy.

Pricing figures, ownership, acquisition dates and product behaviour cited on this page are point-in-time and drawn from public sources - see the disclaimer at the bottom of this page for sourcing, "as of" date, and how to flag corrections.

WHICH ONE FITS

Pick the one your site points at

Find the column that describes the job in front of you.

Choose Camcloud if

  • One site, a handful of cameras and a stable fibre line, where the simplest possible deployment matters more than what happens during an outage
  • You want no appliance on site at all and are content that recording stops when the connection does
  • The customer buys self-serve and wants published per-camera pricing they can read before talking to anyone

Choose TetherX if

  • The customer runs several sites, or mounts cameras on vehicles, lamp posts or a construction compound where the connection is patchy
  • Recording has to survive an Internet outage rather than fall back to 24-48 hours of SD card
  • There is an existing NVR or DVR worth keeping, and rewiring every camera to face the Internet is not on the table
  • Alarms and access belong on the same timeline as the cameras, not in two more apps
FAQ

Questions before you switch from Camcloud

Camcloud is a Canadian SMB-tier pure-cloud VSaaS based in Ottawa, Ontario. The pitch is simple: point a camera at the cloud and pay per camera per month. That simplicity is also the constraint - there is no on-site NVR bridging, no edge recording, no thin gateway between the camera and the public Internet. If the connection drops, recording drops; if a camera firmware drifts, the only fix is a site visit.

For a single retail unit with a stable fibre line that trade-off is fine. For a multi-site estate, vehicles, lamp posts, construction or anywhere with patchy connectivity, the architecture stops scaling. TetherX gives the same cloud dashboard with a TetherBox at every site - cameras ringfenced from the Internet, local recording survives an outage, and the cloud is the platform not the only place footage lives.

Camcloud supports a local cache, either on the camera's own SD card or on an optional NAS (network-attached storage box). Events still record locally during an outage and sync up later. The catch: SD-card retention rarely exceeds 24-48 hours at any reasonable bitrate, and the NAS is an extra box the customer has to source and configure. Neither is the default, so many small-business deployments rely purely on the cloud stream.

TetherX records to the TetherBox locally by default - days, weeks or months of retention depending on the unit and the storage configuration. The cloud recording copy uploads when the link is available. An Internet outage at the site does not lose footage; it just delays the cloud upload.

Not cleanly. Camcloud's own NVR/DVR support article says the platform does not connect to a local DVR or NVR. Each camera has to reach AWS independently from the local network. On a typical Hikvision or Dahua retrofit the cameras sit on a private segment behind the recorder. The installer either rewires them, or fits a workaround switch exposing every camera to the recorder and the Internet at once.

TetherX takes the opposite approach: the TetherBox sits alongside the existing recorder, pulls the camera streams over the local network, ringfences them from the Internet and provides the cloud overlay. Keep the NVR, add the cloud, no rewiring.

Camcloud's public pricing runs from a free home tier through roughly $6-10 per camera per month for motion recording up to around $15 per camera per month for 30-day continuous 2MP. TetherX is an annual platform subscription priced by channel count (from £100/site/year) through the installer partner, with cloud recording and AI search as optional per-camera services - the platform itself includes the dashboard, multi-site management, alarm-panel integration, access-control unification and ARC integration. For an installer running multiple sites the per-channel platform model usually undercuts per-camera-per-month at scale, and the qualified installer remains the customer's single point of contact for the whole deployment.

Yes. Camcloud uses ONVIF (the open camera standard) and RTSP (the video streaming standard) - any camera that works on Camcloud will work on TetherX. TetherX supports 1,000+ integrations (Hanwha, Axis, Bosch, Avigilon, Pelco, Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview, i-PRO, Mobotix, VIVOTEK) plus any ONVIF device. The cameras stay; the recording and dashboard change.

Yes. One iOS app, one Android app, one web app. Camcloud's simplicity is a real strength for single-camera small-business users and well-rated by installers on its core workflow; for a multi-site account, TetherX carries the same simple per-site view, plus alarm-panel timelines, access-control events, multi-site filtering and ARC integration on the same screen.

Yes. 30-day free trial through an integrator partner with a TetherBox, full platform access. Extensions on request.
COMPANY HISTORY

Camcloud: 13 years independent, white-label from day one

Camcloud Inc. was founded in Ottawa, Canada in 2013 by Brendan Harrison (CEO), Dan Burkett (CTO) and Alen Zukich (CPO) - three veterans of mobile development, cybersecurity and networking. Privately held and still independent.

Camcloud beat most of the cloud VSaaS field to the partner-channel pitch (white-label since day one) but never scaled past the SMB DIY + reseller's-own-brand lane. The architecture is the same hardware-free, bring-your-own-IP-camera, push-to-AWS, pay-per-camera-per-month pattern as Videoloft.

The competitive position is solid in the small-business / DIY end of the market; the brand recognition, IPVM footprint, AI depth and enterprise muscle that a full platform needs are not there. The manufacturer's site is the authoritative source for current product status.

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