After a last minute change of supplier Sevens7 IT were called in to provide a complete voice and data solution to the Ben & Jerry’s festival in both London and Manchester simultaneously. Used to delivering hi grade networks in unusual locations at short notice the Sevens7 IT team jumped to the challenge and got down to work.
As timescales were tight it was not going to be possible to use a traditional connectivity solution such as bonded DSL or ADSL2+ on one of our 2:1 ratio circuits. With this in mind the team decided to deliver the internet connection via hi-speed satellite broadband. Due to the speed of our V-Sat systems we were also able to provide a robust VOIP service giving the festival landlines in key areas such as production, artist liaison and the ELT.
Redundancy is always at the heart of any network we provide and Ben & Jerry’s needed a connection that would not fail. To ensure downtime was not going to be an issue we ran 2 x sat systems concurrently via different ISP’s which gave us the resilience we required in the unlikely event of one connection failing. Using our failover technology if any outage did occur the users would be unaware as the system automatically switches over to the working connection.
The phone and internet requirement was not just confined to the backstage/production area, with ticket booths and client areas also needing to get online we had to look at the best way of sending the connection across distances of up to 1km without compromising speed. To achieve this we employed our new radio point to point units which allow us to send our data network across vast distances safely and securely. As a result every area that requested it was provided with an 18mbps down/3mbps up service giving Ben & Jerry’s its fastest connection yet! Roll on 2012
sevens7, on behalf of Jubba & Mischief PR, provided site management, production management & event management at both sites for the 2 day music festival on London’s Clapham Common & Manchester’s Heaton Park. This year was the first year the festival was held in two locations on the same weekend in July.
sevens7 provided site management, production management & event management for the music festival held on London’s Clapham Common, on behalf of Mischief PR.
