Gottwood Festival is an independent electronic music festival held annually in a remote woodland location in North Wales. With ticketing, payment systems, production operations and internal communications all relying on stable internet connectivity, the event requires a temporary network infrastructure capable of operating reliably across a large and challenging site environment.
Gottwood
Festival
Gottwood Festival is an independent electronic music festival held annually in a remote woodland location in North Wales. With ticketing, payment systems, production operations and internal communications all relying on stable internet connectivity, the event requires a temporary network infrastructure capable of operating reliably across a large and challenging site environment.
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Environment: Remote live festival site
Duration: 5-day festival / 10-day installation
Challenge: Business-critical temporary connectivity infrastructure
Solution: Full-site fibre and network deployment
Outcome: Entire festival operated on Pinnacom infrastructure
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Full temporary festival network deployment
Fibre delivery to remote site
Approximately 3km of fibre infrastructure deployed
Approximately 2km of CAT6 cabling installed
Up to 50 wireless access points across site
Coverage spanning almost one square mile
1000Mb / 115Mb primary connectivity service
Support for up to 500 concurrent users and 1000 connected devices
Operational traffic separation and network control systems
On-site engineering support throughout deployment and live operation
Outcome:
Pinnacom delivers and operates the complete communications infrastructure for Gottwood Festival, supporting event production, payment systems, ticketing and operational management across the entire site.
Having supported the festival for more than a decade, Pinnacom continues to provide a scalable temporary network capable of supporting hundreds of concurrent users and thousands of connected devices in a remote live-event environment where connectivity is an absolute must.
Challenge:
The festival requires reliable, high-capacity connectivity across a remote site with no permanent communications infrastructure in place.
The network needs to support:
Production and operational systems
Ticketing and accreditation
Payment terminals
Internal staff communications
Controlled WiFi access across the site
Because nearly every operational system depends on connectivity, reliability and resilience is critical throughout the live event period.
Solution:
Pinnacom delivers fibre connectivity directly to the festival site before designing and deploying a complete temporary network infrastructure across the event grounds.
The deployment includes:
Full-site fibre and CAT6 network installation
WiFi infrastructure across operational areas
Controlled access systems to separate operational traffic from public usage
On-site engineering support throughout build, live event operation and de-rig
The infrastructure is built over a 10-day period before being fully dismantled following the event.
