Connectivity Sponsor Deep Dive — Chickenstock 2026

Your carrier footprint at a glance

1,500+

Expected Attendees

100–
300

Mbps Satellite Uplink

72h

3-Day Operation

Other Carriers
in Chicken, AK

June
11–13

Festival Dates, 2026

How Your Signal Gets There — Chicken, AK → Every Phone on the Grounds

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Satellite Uplink

High-speed sat
100–300 Mbps

→

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Enterprise Router

WAN bonding
+ failover

→

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On-Site Controller

Network mgmt
+ portal server

→

📡

Outdoor Radios

Grounds-wide
signal coverage

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Attendee Devices

Phones, cameras
vendors' tablets

All traffic managed through our on-site servers. Redundant uplink paths keep signal running even if one connection drops. Multiple access points and a full enterprise routing stack, deployed specifically for this event.

There's no carrier in Chicken.
There's you.

Ascend907 is a Fairbanks-based IT and network infrastructure company. We build connectivity where carriers don't go. For Chickenstock, that means satellite uplink, redundant routing, on-site servers, and outdoor-rated radios deployed across the festival site. Your brand on the network that makes it all work.

Chicken sits at Mile 66 of the Taylor Highway. No towers. No coverage. The major carriers gave up on this road a long time ago. For one weekend a year, you're the one who didn't.

The Activation Screen

When they open their phone,
they see you first.

The moment a phone finds the network and tries to load a page, yours is the first thing on screen. Your logo. Your message. Your invitation. Before they get online, they see you.

It's not a banner. There's no scrolling past it. In Chicken there's no other network to switch to, so people read it. They engage with it. They appreciate that someone made the internet work out here.

The contact list is yours after the festival. People who opted in, agreed to hear from you, and drove to Interior Alaska on purpose to be at this thing. That's a different kind of lead than a Facebook click.

9:41 [YourBrand] ▲▲▲▲ 🔋

🐔

YOUR BRAND

Powering Chickenstock 2026 · Chicken, AK

Signal provided by

[YourBrand] Connectivity

Drop your email to get connected. Welcome to Chickenstock — glad you made the drive.

How the Sponsorship Works

From your end, it's actually
pretty simple.

You send us your brand assets

Send us your logo, brand colors, and any messaging you want front and center. We'll build the activation screen and network identity, then share everything with you for review and approval before anything goes live. You sign off before a single attendee sees it.

We build and test the network

Ascend907 stages and tests the full setup before Chickenstock weekend. Every component confirmed before we leave Fairbanks.

We deploy everything on-site

Access points, on-site servers, and the full network stack go out to Chicken. Your branded splash page and network name go live before the first attendee arrives.

We hand you the data after

After the festival you receive a full report: opted-in contacts who agreed to hear from you, total connection counts, and network usage stats. Clean data, properly collected, ready to use.

Network Specs & Security

The stuff your IT department
will want to know.

Real carriers publish coverage specs. So do we. Here's exactly what we deploy and how it's secured.

Uplink

High-speed satellite internet. 100–300 Mbps download with bonded and redundant uplink paths. If one path degrades, traffic shifts automatically.

Radio Infrastructure

Enterprise-grade outdoor radios, rated for weather, designed for high-density environments. Multiple units placed across the festival grounds for blanket coverage. Same hardware class used for private carrier deployments at remote worksites.

Controller

On-site server running full network management, DHCP, the captive portal, and traffic monitoring. Does not depend on internet connectivity to manage local network operations.

Guest VLAN Isolation

Attendees are on an isolated guest VLAN. They can reach the internet but cannot see or talk to other devices on the network. No lateral movement, no snooping.

Activation Screen

Fully branded data activation screen deployed from the on-site controller. Your logo, colors, and messaging. Supports email collection. Users complete activation before data access is granted. First thing every device sees.

Email Collection

Opt-in email capture at the portal. Real contacts from real attendees who physically showed up. Clean list, delivered to the sponsor after the festival.

Encryption

WPA2/WPA3 encryption on all access points. HTTPS enforced on the captive portal. Traffic handled over secured connections end-to-end.

PCI Compliance

Vendor payment traffic runs on a completely separate isolated network — no payment card data transits the attendee data network. This matches the carrier-grade separation standard used in commercial deployments.

Firewall

Enterprise routing with stateful firewall, intrusion prevention, and content filtering. Known malicious traffic is blocked at the WAN edge before it touches the local network.

Coverage Area

Main stage area, vendor row, camping access points, and festival entry. Positioned based on the Chickenstock grounds layout. High-density AP placement handles large simultaneous device counts.

Bandwidth Management

Per-client rate limiting and QoS policies ensure fair bandwidth distribution across hundreds of concurrent users. No single device can saturate the uplink.

Monitoring

Real-time network monitoring for the duration of the festival by on-site Ascend907 staff. Issues are caught and addressed before attendees notice them.

What's Included

Everything you get
as Connectivity Sponsor.

Network named after your brand. You're the only carrier in Chicken, AK.
Branded activation screen with your logo, message, and colors. Shown to every person who connects.
Opted-in contact list from the portal, delivered to you after the festival
Feather banners and A-frames at key spots with your brand and "Powered by" messaging
Guaranteed MC shoutouts by name on the main stage mic throughout the weekend
"Powered by [Your Brand]" on digital festival communications
Priority connectivity passes for your team and guests — full-speed access to share with whoever matters most
Exclusivity. One brand, one network, no competing sponsors.
Post-event report: opted-in contacts, connection counts, and network usage stats

📧 You Keep the Email List

Every opt-in collected through the captive portal is yours. Real people who showed up to Chickenstock and agreed to hear from you. That's a Fairbanks-area list of actual outdoor music festival attendees — and you get it for doing exactly nothing extra.

🔒 One Carrier. One Brand.

No co-branding. No shared network names. No "also powered by." You're the only carrier in Chicken, AK for the weekend — and the only name on the network. That exclusivity is the point.

🐔 Zero Competition for Attention

AT&T isn't there. Verizon isn't there. There's no cell signal to fall back on. Attendees need what you're providing — and they know it. That's a fundamentally different engagement than a banner they can scroll past.

You're Not Sponsoring Wi-Fi.
You're Being the Carrier.

There's no carrier in Chicken.
There's you.

When they open their phone,
they see you first.