A live event is a network with a fixed, immovable deadline and no second attempt. These are the capabilities we bring on site, how each one is engineered, and what you receive in writing when we hand the network over.
They are rarely bought individually. A production needs a network, and a network is what these capabilities add up to — scoped together, by one team, so the interfaces between them are engineered rather than assumed.
The whole temporary network under one contract: broadcast, production, corporate and public-facing traffic designed as one system. Sized from your requirements matrix rather than a service catalogue, delivered with a documented design pack, and decommissioned on a date agreed before build-up starts.
Wi-Fi 6/6E engineered for crowds, where the constraint is airtime rather than bandwidth. Access-point placement follows the RF survey; cells are kept small and power-matched, with band steering, airtime fairness and 802.11k/v/r roaming. Separate SSIDs per user class, each with its own rate limits, so guest demand can never starve production.
Stand-alone private 5G with network slicing and dedicated SIM/eSIM profiles, giving wireless cameras, telemetry and event IoT a predictable radio environment that public networks cannot offer once an audience arrives. Operated under the spectrum authorisation applicable at the venue.
Multi-carrier bonded cellular aggregating several operators into one resilient uplink, with SIM diversity so no single network is a single point of failure. Primary where fixed paths are impractical — moving productions, remote positions, short build-up windows — and a diverse backup everywhere else.
Diverse paths that are genuinely diverse: different carriers, separate physical entries into the venue, no shared duct or shared upstream quietly collapsing the design. Automatic failover, documented failure domains, and a failover test completed before go-live rather than discovered during it.
Dedicated temporary fibre for contribution and distribution, with Ethernet or OTN hand-off to your carrier or platform. Engineered for uncompressed and lightly compressed IP workflows — SMPTE ST 2110, JPEG XS — including internal cabling and patching to MCR, OB positions and production offices.
Frequency planning, intermodulation analysis and coordination with every other spectrum user on site — broadcasters, production, venue, security. Scanning and monitoring continue during the event, because the RF environment changes the moment the doors open.
An on-site and remote Network Operations Centre monitoring every circuit, link and access point, staffed across the full event window from build-up to teardown. Named engineers, a written escalation matrix, and a single number to call — not a ticket queue.
Segregation first: VLAN and VRF separation between broadcast, operations, corporate and guest traffic, so a compromised guest device cannot reach the production network. Device hardening, access control, controlled administrative access and DDoS mitigation upstream of the venue, run under our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified information security management system.
Transport and delivery for live streaming over SRT, RIST and JPEG XS, with QoS and queueing that protect contribution traffic under load, encoder and decoder hand-off, and an independent backup path to the platform of your choice.
The network the audience never sees: accreditation and access control systems, ticket scanning at the gates, back-of-house and production offices, press centre positions and MCR. Includes cabling, power and timing coordination with the venue and the other suppliers already working on site.
Every capability above is delivered against the same four standards. They are what makes a temporary network behave like a permanent one.
Anything whose failure would be visible on air has a second path that does not share the first one's fate — different carrier, different route, different power.
We break the primary path on purpose, during build-up, and watch the backup take over. A redundancy that has never been exercised is an assumption.
Broadcast, operations, corporate and guest traffic are separated by design, so demand or compromise in one class cannot reach another.
Quality, IT service management and information security certified to ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — audited, not self-declared.
This is the engineering that happens before the survey crew arrives — the part that decides whether the network is right long before anyone unpacks a case.
Cameras, encoders, commentary and press positions, ticket gates, accreditation, back-of-house systems and the devices your audience will bring. We count what must work before we size anything.
Each requirement becomes bandwidth per traffic class, concurrency at peak, and deliberate headroom. Peak is not the average of the day: it is doors opening, kick-off, encore.
We walk the design failure by failure — this carrier drops, this fibre is cut, this rack loses power — and keep redesigning until every answer is one your production can live with.
An agreed test plan, executed and signed off on site before go-live, with the documentation pack your engineers need to work alongside us during the event.
A temporary network disappears when the event ends. The documentation does not — and it is what makes the next edition faster to build.
Topology and rack diagrams, IP addressing plan, RF and frequency plan, bill of materials, and the escalation matrix with named engineers and their numbers.
The agreed test plan with its results: throughput per class, roaming behaviour, failover timings measured on site, and any deviation from design recorded and explained.
What the network actually did: traffic and utilisation against the model, every incident and how it was handled, and the recommendations we would apply to the next edition.
Send us the venue, the dates and what has to be on air. We will come back with the questions that matter and a route to a design.
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