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Every generation of wireless added a layer. The next one is made of the devices themselves.

Zeva Corp is building the third wireless layer: a routing protocol that turns every phone in a crowd into part of the network. Live events are where we prove it. A global standard is where it goes.

The three wireless layers

  1. Layer 1 · 1980s–01

    Cellular

    Towers owned by carriers. Wide area, expensive, built for average load.

  2. Layer 2 · 1990s–02

    Wi-Fi

    Access points owned by buildings. Local, cheap, still a fixed asset that saturates.

  3. Layer 3 · Now03

    Zeva

    Carried by everyone. Capacity rises with density. Works where the first two layers fail.

Make the crowd the most reliable network in the building.

Each wireless layer filled a gap the previous one couldn't. Cellular can't do indoor density. Wi-Fi can't do temporary or mobile crowds. Layer 3 fills the gap both leave with the one asset that's always present when they fail: the people in the room.

  • B2B2C by design

    Venues deploy it. Attendees never think about it. The protocol lives inside the apps people already have.

  • Encrypted payloads, not user data

    Relaying phones carry ciphertext they cannot read. Intelligence is aggregate, never individual.

  • Complementary, not a replacement

    Zeva absorbs the peak carriers and DAS can't serve, and hands traffic to the backhaul venues already own.

  • Open on purpose

    An open spec, a reference implementation and a certification program are how a product becomes a standard.

Live events prove it. Venues scale it. Devices adopt it.

Bluetooth began as a single vendor's cable-replacement spec. Today 5.3B devices a year ship with it and the SIG counts 40,000+ member companies. Standards start as one product that works.

  1. 2026–27 · Prove01

    Festivals & conferences

    Mesh validated at scale with published uptime data. Repeat venues. Revenue per event.

  2. 2027–28 · Scale02

    Stadiums, arenas, cities

    SDK inside team, league and operator apps. Zeva becomes the overflow layer carriers and DAS can't provide.

  3. 2028–30 · Embed03

    OS & chipset partners

    Open spec, reference implementation, certification program. Licensed IP for OEMs and carriers.

  4. 2030+ · Standard04

    Default on every device

    Cities, transit, disaster response. The network people fall back to whenever infrastructure saturates.

We've built mesh networks for the military and run production for the venues we're selling to.

The people who understand military mesh don't have venue relationships, and the people with venue relationships don't understand mesh. We have both.

  • Connor Lee Neistadt

    CEO & Co-founder

    Ten years in the entertainment industry. Runs Sherrell Corp, a 25-year rigging company with Six Flags, MGM Grand, Wynn and Red Bull F1 as clients.

    Four years in the U.S. Marine Corps building and operating mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and radio communications.

  • We’re hiring engineers.

    Protocol hardening, SDK and field deployments. If you’ve worked on routing, BLE, or taken a system from a lab to a 100,000-person field, write to us.

    connor@zeva.io

The milestones our first deployments are built to hit.

  • Mesh validated live at 100k attendees, with published uptime data
  • Five paying venues and the first stadium or arena SDK integration
  • Open protocol spec v1 published, with patents filed in all three claim areas
  • Service-fee revenue from transactions carried over the network

Work with us.

We're selecting the venues and events that prove the third layer. If you run one, or want to help build the protocol, we'd like to talk.

Book a demoEmail connor@zeva.io