Zen provides connectivity at the V Festival

Zen Internet, the Rochdale based award-winning Internet Service Provider (ISP), is again working with Introspect IT Solutions Ltd to provide highly reliable and high speed Internet connectivity for the forthcoming V festival.

The festival organisers, Roseclaim Ltd, will have a remote onsite office using Zen broadband, providing them with access to emails and files from the head office network. Introspect IT will implement a Virtual Private Network for this, and will oversee the project. 

Other broadband lines will be used for the bands and road crew to access their email with Introspect IT Solutions setting up the wireless networks to enable this access. In addition to this, Zen broadband will also be used for demonstrations of music downloads by the sponsors this year.

Higher speeds are available this year through the Office 8000 Max service that Zen has introduced which offers download speeds of up to 8Mbps and potential upload levels of 832Kbps. Introspect has ordered more lines this year bringing the total to ten, all benefiting from this new high speed service.

Since last year Zen has introduced a dedicated events team that has provided broadband for a wide range of events including: The Senior British Open Championship 2006, The World Snooker Championships and The 2006 Download Festival. The Events Team have become experts in the field of temporary broadband which needs to be activated fast, and the monthly contract at Zen is a key selling point for many event organisers.

Mike Dixon, Technical Director at Introspect IT Solutions, explained: “We turned to Zen to connect this festival due to their proven record as a reliable and high quality provider. This year the added bonuses of higher speed broadband availability and the dedicated Zen Events Team led to even more reasons for our customer to trust Zen to deliver effective connections for this high profile event.”

Iain Johnstone, the Sales and Partner Programme Manager at Zen Internet, commented: “We have a great relationship with Introspect and have worked with them previously on the V festival, as well as other big events. Our customers and partners choose to work with us on a range of events as we are a reliable provider and through our specialist Events Team have gained a large amount of experience and expertise.”