USA - Clair Global was engaged by Latitude 38 Entertainment (L38), part of Live Nation Entertainment, for the eighth year to provide data solutions to three-day music and food festival, BottleRock Napa Valley.
Clair Global’s data services enhanced the festival experience for 45,000 attendees who came to watch a line-up of musical talent, including Clair Global touring clients Stevie Nicks, Megan Thee Stallion, The Offspring and Queens of the Stone Age.
Clair Global engineers built the network infrastructure to support production connectivity needs around the festival venue, the Napa Valley Expo, before deploying specific solutions for food and drink vendors, access control locations, and site wide attendee WiFi, using enterprise grade network equipment overseen by a crew of 14.
Clair Global relies heavily on the reliability and performance of Cisco network equipment. Cisco, a festival sponsor, has been showcasing new technologies at the event for some years, partnering with Clair for deployment expertise.
Clair Global account manager, Ethan Quint, comments: "Clair has some very smart and capable network engineers who have designed these systems and their deployment methods. Having over 60 years of heritage has been invaluable to our data solutions; touring and packaging these systems, deploying them rapidly to rig and tear down is what makes our service stand out."
Tasked with laying out an enterprise grade system to support the event is achieved through tailor made, proprietary mounting hardware and enclosures for WiFi access points, before fitting neatly into production trucks during load-out.
Ethan continues: "We are always bettering how our large-scale network services could be configured from a technical standpoint to minimize downtime. Some of the bigger things that add to our resiliency on the network besides power back-up, is innovatively weather proofing the equipment from heat, dust, and rain hazards."
The weekend following BottleRock, L38 produced Latin festival La Onda on the same site, once again requesting the services of Clair Global’s data engineers.
