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# Gateways

> How gateway operators provide intake, routing, and service coordination in the Livepeer network.

Gateways are the demand-side coordination nodes in Livepeer.

Applications submit workloads to gateways, and gateways route jobs to orchestrators for execution.

## Core Responsibilities

* Job intake from applications
* Capability matching across available orchestrators
* Routing and retry behaviour under load or failure
* Service-level interfaces for developers and platforms

## What Gateways Do Not Do

Gateways do not perform most GPU compute directly.

Their primary function is coordination, service delivery, and reliability of the request path.

## Why Gateways Matter

Without gateways, every application would need to handle:

* Compute provider discovery
* Dynamic routing and failover
* Capacity and availability management
* Integration-specific operational logic

Gateways abstract these concerns and make the network easier to use.

## Typical Flow

1. App submits a workload request
2. Gateway evaluates compatible orchestrators
3. Gateway dispatches job to selected orchestrator
4. Gateway returns result to the app

## Related Pages

* [Orchestrators](/v2/orchestrators/portal)
* [Job Lifecycle](../job-lifecycle)
* [Demand Side](../demand-side)