Touchdown Kelowna Festival – Temporary Event Network at the Apple Bowl

Built the temporary network backbone for Touchdown Kelowna Festival, supporting BC Lions game-day broadcast operations, ticketing, vendor POS traffic, and festival connectivity across the Apple Bowl site.

Location

Kelowna, BC

Project type

Live Events & Sports Broadcast

Service focus

Network Cabling · Office Network Solutions · Wireless Bridging

Access points

POS stations

~30

Event zones

~20

Challenge

The event footprint stretched across grandstands, gates, vendor zones, broadcast areas, and guest pathways. The network had to support customer-supplied gear, avoid trip hazards, and still be easy to remove after the festival window closed.

Solution

Simply Telecom established a command centre in the broadcast booth, extended fibre under the field to distribution points behind the grandstands, ran labelled structured cabling throughout the site, and used point-to-point wireless links where physical cable paths would have crossed guest foot traffic.

Outcome

Every cable, fibre run, and connection was tested to support dependable broadcast, POS, ticketing, and event operations across the full festival footprint.

Why this project matters for future event-network buyers

This case study shows what Simply Telecom can deliver when a venue needs temporary Wi‑Fi, broadcast-ready cabling, ticketing support, vendor POS connectivity, and on-site troubleshooting under live-event pressure. The same planning, installation, testing, and support model applies to sports events, festivals, production compounds, and other short-term venues across Kelowna and the Okanagan.

Network Cabling Office Network Solutions Wireless Bridging

Planning resources for similar event deployments

These supporting guides help venues, event operators, and production teams scope temporary Wi‑Fi, POS connectivity, and cabling before the first truck rolls in.

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Event Network Planning Checklist

Use this checklist to confirm internet handoff, vendor zones, ticketing lanes, production requirements, access-point placement, cable routes, support staffing, and teardown logistics before your event goes live.

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Festival POS & Ticketing Connectivity Checklist

This checklist helps event teams plan vendor POS stations, ticketing lanes, gate operations, payment resilience, and temporary network segmentation before opening to the public.

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