LoRaWAN
Apart from wide area network communication, LoRa is also used as low power wide area network (LoRaWAN and NB IoT) to connect low bandwidth, low bit rate, and battery operated devices to internet using gateways. The gateway acts as a conduit that connects a device to server.
In essence, LoRaWAN is a network architecture for LoRa.
The LoRaWAN specification is open, so anyone can set up and operate a LoRa network.