“It’s more than a music festival: it’s a technology festival,” Judith Reiss, senior manager of the NOS Mobile Engineering and Services Network, told journalists during a technical visit. This is what the organization and its infrastructure, whose capacity has been boosted by 5% this year, say.
Over 1,200 kilometres of fibre network spans across 11 hectares of the site. we Alive, which runs until Sunday, not only supports the three days of the event, but also the trinity of 5G measures prepared for the 17th edition of the music festival: “Call the Emoji, “Entusiasmómeter” and “Repórter 5G”.
“It’s more than just a music festival: it’s a technology festival,” said Judith Reis. Senior Doctor Mobile Engineering Network and Services NOS, during a technical visit to journalists. This is what the organization says and the infrastructure whose capacity has been increased by 5% this year.
The same person in charge compares the technological infrastructure created by NOS to that of medium-sized cities. “What NOS has created here, from a technological point of view, is similar to what we have, for example, in a medium-sized city, like Coimbra or Leiria,” he explains.
Being a festival with “high demands” and “more than 50% information”. Uplink“5G technology guarantees the “immediacy” required by the nature of a festival like NOS Alive,” continues the same person in charge.
The activity is supported by more than one hundred workers and four technical rooms, two of which are Data centers, Being one of them to support that it Disaster recoveryand generators. There are more than a hundred cells providing 4G and 5G coverage. The highlight is the Lente antenna, unique in Portugal, which is used in major events in the USA, the SuperBowl.
“TWe need to make sure that there are no failures during the festival, not just to support the event itself. [festival]As for the festival-goers. We have set up the festival not only with an eye to ensuring speed and immediacy, but also with great flexibility. The way the cells are set up here at the festival not only ensures that we have a lot of capacity, but if one thing fails, another takes over, explained Judit Reis, revealing that in the days leading up to the opening of the event, many tests were carried out.
“Last year we had over 20 terabyte of traffic generated throughout the event. Only at one party was it about one terabyte “From traffic,” he continued. For this session, which receives about 55,000 people daily, the organization has prepared for “a growth of up to 10/20% in traffic.”
““Emotional Jacket”
As part of NOS’ vision for inclusivity, an initiative to promote inclusion using 5G technology has been designed for this edition of the festival. Developed by Access Lab, a company that “works to make culture accessible to people with disabilities and the deaf.” Entertainment as a basic human right The haptic vests used in the initiative transmit vibrations in tune with the music and real-time audience reactions to the ones worn. The concert chosen for this pilot project was Dua Lia on the 12th.
NOS has developed a solution based entirely on 5G technology to provide a complete multi-sensory experience for a group of 8 deaf and hard of hearing people so that they can, for the first time, experience the emotions of a festival like the we Alive“Through special jackets that vibrate to the beat of the music,” the company explains.
This experience was enhanced by two features developed by NOS: simultaneous translation on the user’s smartphone via the Webapp, which ensured the transmission of simultaneous and synchronized translation throughout the concert of the Anglo-Albanian artist, and real-time Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) translation via the user’s cell phone. Thus, through the Webapp, participants were able to watch the broadcast via flow Direct from LGP interpretation.
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