About Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWANs
Long Range WAN (LoRaWAN) is a Low-Power WAN (LPWAN) specification. It is intended for the wireless battery operated things in regional, national, or global network.
LoRaWAN network architecture is typically laid out in a star-of-stars topology. In this topology, gateways are transparent bridges relaying messages between end-devices and a central network server in the back end. Gateways are connected to the network server by standard IP connections while end-devices use single-hop wireless communication to one or many gateways.
A typical LoRa integrated infrastructure comprises the following four layers:
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LoRa Endpoint—The sensor to equip a Semtech LoRa RF module inside and run the LoRaWAN protocol to communicate to the backend platform.
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LoRa Gateway—The concentrator tunneling the LoRaWAN MAC frames between an endpoint and a Network Server platform.
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LoRa Network Server—The central component that handles the LoRaWAN MAC traffic, performing endpoint and gateway management, and LoRaWAN MAC layer security and other functions.
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Application Server—Data security and application enablement.
The Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN is connected to the Cisco 800 Series Industrial Integrated Services Router. It is connected through an Ethernet cable with PoE+ to perform as a carrier-grade LoRa gateway.