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title: "LoRa Basics™ Station"
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LoRa Basics™ Station is a generic LoRaWAN<span style="color: #202124">®</span> packet forwarder developed by the Semtech Corporation to replace the Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder in production environments.

It includes among others the following features:

- Connection to a LoRa Network Server compatible with LNS protocol.
- Encrypted communication via TLS.
- Optional [server and client authentication](https://docs-loriot.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMS/pages/909836296).
- [NetID and JoinEUI-based packet filtering](https://docs-loriot.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMS/pages/860749833).
- [Remote Commands](https://doc.sm.tc/station/tcproto.html#remote-commands).

You can find further details regarding the LoRa Basics™ Station and how to install it [here](https://doc.sm.tc/station/).

LoRa Basics™ Station Gateway Provisioning and Certificate Configuration on the NMS are detailed in the following articles:

> Macro (children)