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Packet Forwarders

This reference describes support for various Packet Forwarders in The Things Stack.

The Things Stack supports LoRa Basics™ Station. There is also legacy support for the Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder, but it will be removed in the future.

LoRa Basics™ Station is the preferred way of connecting gateways to The Things Stack. The advantages of LoRa Basics™ Station over the legacy UDP Packet Forwarder are centralized update and configuration management for gateway fleets, TLS and token-based authentication, centralized channel plan management, and no dependency on local timekeeping.

The following packet forwarders are not supported:

  • The Things Network Packet Forwarder
  • Kersing Packet Forwarder
  • Chirpstack Gateway Bridge
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