How Harvest Moon Festival deployed temporary high-capacity connectivity across 45 acres for vendors, production, security, and 10,000+ attendees—with zero downtime over 3 days.
Outdoor Music Festival
Multi-Gateway Deployment
3-Day Event
Attendees
Vendor Booths
Transactions Processed
Uptime
Harvest Moon Festival is a 3-day outdoor music and arts event held on a 45-acre ranch property in rural Texas. The venue has no permanent infrastructure—no wired internet, no cell towers within 5 miles, and limited power availability.
In previous years, the festival relied on a patchwork of portable hotspots and satellite connections. The result: dropped payment transactions, security radio failures, and constant complaints from vendors who couldn't process sales.
"We had vendors losing thousands in sales because their card readers kept timing out. Security couldn't communicate. Our live stream crashed three times on Saturday," recalled festival director Maya Chen. "We knew we needed a real solution."
"Running a festival with 10,000 people in a field with no connectivity is like flying blind. Every transaction, every radio call, every emergency communication depends on having reliable internet."
Maya Chen
Festival Director, Harvest Moon Festival
Waveie deployed a temporary high-capacity network across the 45-acre venue using strategically placed business gateways with carrier aggregation technology. The system was designed for the specific demands of a large outdoor event:
Strategically placed to cover all vendor areas, stages, and security points
Combined bandwidth from 3 carriers for maximum throughput and redundancy
Reserved capacity for live production and social media broadcasts
QoS rules ensured payment processing never dropped, even during peak usage
Zero connectivity failures across all 3 days of the festival
87 vendor booths processed payments without a single dropped transaction
Including 18 hours of live stream footage viewed by 45,000+ remote viewers
Network handled surge during Saturday headliner without performance degradation
Equipment arrived on-site, Waveie team began site survey and gateway placement
All 12 gateways installed and network tested; vendor WiFi credentials distributed
Full load testing with vendor POS systems; streaming equipment verified
Festival live—Waveie tech on-site for monitoring and support (zero incidents)
Equipment packed and removed; site returned to original state
"This was our smoothest year ever for operations. Vendors were actually thanking us for the connectivity—that's never happened before. Waveie turned our biggest liability into a non-issue."
Tom Rodriguez
Operations Manager, Harvest Moon Festival
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