The Cisco® Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN supports the LoRa™ physical layer technology and complies with the LoRaWAN specification defined by the LoRa Alliance™ to provide LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) wireless connectivity for low data rate, battery-powered devices and sensors. Through the unlicensed sub-GHz radio, a wide variety of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints that require low power operation or long-range transmission distances can now be connected and located more economically than ever before.
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This product can be configured as a radio interface of the Cisco Industrial Routers 807, 809, 829, Connected Grid Router 1120 and 1240. One or multiple gateways are connected to the LAN port(s) of the IR807, IR809, IR829, CGR-1120 or CGR-1240 via Ethernet or VLANs with encrypted links. Through this configuration, it provides LoRaWAN radio access while the IR809 or IR829 offer backhaul support for Gigabit Ethernet (electrical or fiber), 4G/LTE, or Wi-Fi. This offers customers maximum flexibility in a complex network environment: access to a fiber network through a Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) interface, the ability to connect to a cellular network through a single LTE or dual-LTE radios for redundancy, and the ability to connect to a Wi-Fi infrastructure or mesh network.
In addition, this product can be deployed as a standalone unit and directly connected to existing Ethernet switches or routers through its Fast Ethernet port. In standalone, it provides both LoRaWAN radio access and essential IP networking features. This deployment option is suitable for fully secure and trusted networks; for example, customers may directly connect it to a service provider’s intranet from an access switch or router that may be available at the service provider’s cellular base station site.
