v3.19.1

Getting Started Devices Gateways Integrations Reference
Get The Things Stack

Getting Started

    Overview
  • Quick Start
  • What Is The Things Stack?
  • Console
  • Command-line Interface
  • Installing The Things Stack
  • Upgrading The Things Stack
  • Migrating to The Things Stack
  • The Things Stack Cloud
  • The Things Stack AWS Launcher
  • The Things Network
  • Server Addresses
  • Packet Broker
  • Single Sign-On
  • Users and Organizations
  • Using the API
  • Working with Events
  • Troubleshooting Getting Started

What Is The Things Stack?

Welcome to The Things Stack! In this section, we help you to understand how to use The Things Stack, who makes it, and common acronyms like TTS, TTI, and TTN.

What is The Things Stack?

The Things Stack is an enterprise grade LoRaWAN network server, built on an open source core. The Things Stack allows you to build and manage LoRaWAN networks on your own hardware or in the cloud.

The Things Stack Deployments

The Things Stack comes in many different flavors to meet different requirements. For information about all available deployments, see Deployments. These are:

Cloud: SLA backed network server hosted by The Things Industries. See Cloud.

Dedicated Cloud: All the benefits of Cloud on a dedicated cluster.

AWS Launcher: AWS marketplace makes it easy to deploy in one click on new or existing EC2 cluster. Integrates effortlessly with AWS IOT, so you can keep using tools you’re already familiar with.

Enterprise: Install the network server on your own hardware, with professional support from The Things Industries.

Community Edition: Run by The Things Network, this is our free to use network server which provides the world’s largest community based LoRaWAN network. To learn more and sign up, see The Things Network.

Open Source: For DIY’ers, the core of The Things Stack is open source. If you want to get your hands dirty and understand how The Things Stack works, clone away and get hacking.

Who makes The Things Stack?

The Things Stack is developed and maintained by The Things Industries.

The Things Industries offers several types of deployments of The Things Stack, for example as a managed cloud service, or with additional proprietary features.

What are TTI, TTN, and TTS?

You might see abbreviations like TTN, TTS, and TTI tossed around in the forums and in other places. Here’s what they mean:

TTS: The Things Stack

TTS is The Things Stack, the LoRaWAN Network Server stack. The Things Stack is currently at version 3 of a Network Server implementation, and is therefore also informally known as V3.

TTN: The Things Network

TTN is The Things Network, which is a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN. The Things Network runs The Things Stack Community Edition, which is a crowdsourced, open and decentralized LoRaWAN network. This network is a great way to get started testing devices, applications, and integrations, and get familiar with LoRaWAN.

The Things Network transitioned to The Things Stack Community Edition in 2021. For a guide on migrating from V2 to The Things Stack, see the Migrating Guide.

TTI: The Things Industries

TTI is The Things Industries: the company primarily responsible for development of The Things Stack and writing documentation. The Things Industries also offers cloud hosted and on-premises private LoRaWAN networks with additional enterprise features, and premium support plans for enterprise clients. If you’re interested in building your own guaranteed uptime enterprise grade LoRaWAN network, send us an email.

← Quick Start Console →

On this page

  • What is The Things Stack?
  • Who makes The Things Stack?
  • What are TTI, TTN, and TTS?

The Things Stack

Getting Started

Devices

Gateways

Integrations

Reference

Contributing

GitHub

Forum

About Us

The Things Network

The Things Industries

About this page

Last changed by Ben Olayinka on 04 Jan 2022.
doc: Redirect download button to TTI deployment page (#556)

Edit on Github