https://www.loxation.com/blog/tags/festival/Recent content in Festival on Loxation BlogHugoen-usTue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.loxation.com/blog/posts/festival-mesh-architecture/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.loxation.com/blog/posts/festival-mesh-architecture/<h1 id="how-a-music-festival-becomes-one-big-network">How a Music Festival Becomes One Big Network</h1> <p><em>BLE mesh, WiFi backbone, and a router that runs on a phone.</em></p> <hr> <p>It&rsquo;s the headliner. 80,000 people are in one field. Half of them just pulled out a phone to take the same photo. The cell network — designed for everyday density, not festival density — has fallen over for hours. Bars are gone. Texts are queued up to be sent next Tuesday. Calls fail on connect. Your group, the people you came with, are somewhere in this crowd, and you have no way to reach them.</p>