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Two main competing protocols[edit]

Section 1.1 "LoRa based" ends with this sentence: "On top of this physical layer, there are two main competing protocols:". Only one subsection follows, "1.1.1 LoRaWAN". What's the other one? There's a candidate section below "1.2 Ultra Narrow Band". It's too high-level to make sense, but it could be a typo.

Any clarification appreciated.

2A01:CB1D:1AE:9A00:A66A:FCAB:397B:C8BC (talk) 18:13, 8 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The other competing protocol would be Symphony Link, however it's not normally considered one of the prominent competitors in the LPWAN space. I removed the sentence for now.

Branden Ghena 4:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.171.48 (talk)

This article confuses protocols and vendors. Sometimes the proprietary protocol and its vendor are the same. Eg. Sigfox. At other times, they are not. Eg. RPMA - the procool and Ingenu the vendor. LoRa has an alliance of vendors.

There are four competing LPWAN protocols that I'm aware of:

Sigfox

LoRa ^[1]

RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) Ingenu ^[2]

Weightless ^[3]

My suggestion for this article would be to move the large bulk of this article into a new LoRa article (instead of redirecting to LPWAN), which can contain LoRaWAN, Symphony Link (a LoRa MAC link layer by Link Labs), etc. and leave this article to focus on the four protocols (and not the individual vendors). RPMA should redirect to Ingenu (or vise-versa). Weightless (wireless communications), an open-source LPWAN protocol needs its article refined. kgrr ^talk 04:33, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ lora-alliance.org
^ https://www.ingenu.com/technology/rpma/
^ http://www.weightless.org/

Distances?[edit]

Distances? Comparison with e.g. IoT?
Klimov (talk) 19:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I think the comparison is between Short Range vs Long Range, Low Data Rate vs High Speed, and Power consumption. kgrr ^talk 04:37, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ra-alliance.org

[2] ttps://www.ingenu.com/technology/rpma/

[3] ttp://www.weightless.org/

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