The brief
A.R. Rahman's concert at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Gahunje on 23 November 2025 was his first stadium show in Pune and his first performance in the city in three years. Over almost five hours he was joined by artists including Hariharan and Chinmayi Sripada, and by actor Dhanush in an unannounced appearance, in front of more than 20,000 people. Streamone was appointed to design and deliver the complete temporary IT infrastructure for the venue.
The challenge
Large-format concerts now depend on data as much as on sound and light. At MCA Stadium, entry control, ticket sales and cashless payments all ran over the network, alongside production, accreditation and backstage operations spread across a large open-air venue. More than 20,000 fans would pass through the gates in a narrow window, and a fault anywhere on the network could stop turnstiles or payment counters at the worst possible moment. Resilience was therefore the first design requirement.
What Streamone delivered
Streamone engineered a secure optical fibre network with multiple backbone routes, full redundancy and automatic failover, supervised live from an on-site server room for the duration of the event.
Core Network
- Secure optical fibre network across the stadium
- Multiple backbone routes for full path redundancy
- Automatic failover between paths
- Real-time supervision from a server room on site
Access Control & Ticketing
- Gate 2 box office
- 15 inner-gate turnstiles
- Accreditation and district office
Cashless
- 24 top-up counters connected across the venue
Production & Artist Areas
- On-stage and backstage connectivity (two shared, open-access links)
- Artist village (shared, open access)
- Production house and office
The outcome
Every operational system stayed online for the full show. Turnstiles validated tickets, the box office and all 24 top-up counters processed transactions, and production, accreditation and artist teams remained connected throughout. With redundant paths and failover in place from start to finish, the organisers had the resilience they needed to run a stadium event for more than 20,000 people with confidence.
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