The four-day Festival attracted 12,000 fans to Bootle’s new outdoor venue – created with the help of £1.65m from the Combined Authority – to enjoy performances by the legendary Sir Tom Jones, Status Quo, Red Rum Club and The Farm.
The project is using Open RAN technology in a private network, an emerging telecommunications network architecture that has been shown to enable low-cost, power efficient and unobtrusive small cells to meet the demands of high-density areas.
The event provided a real-world, high-density usage environment for the Liverpool LCR HDD project to test if the technology could deliver high capacity, open Wi-Fi to support e-ticketing and drink and food sales in a secure, fast and efficient way to improve the user experience.
Further trials of the technology will take place across the region at both music, transport and sports venues to see how the new HDD network works in a range of venues that involve a high number of users in the same environment.
This has been a real team effort involving excellent project management and partner participation and buy in.
“Using this new technology in this type of setting is innovative and ambitious project.
This trial will provide us with data that we can analyse to assess the different components of the technology to see if it exceeds the performance of current and traditional technology solutions.
Further trials of the technology will take place across the region at both music, transport and sports venues to see how the new HDD network works in a range of venues that involve a high number of users in the same environment.
