New features specific to self-hosted deployments

This page cumulates all the new ThingPark Enterprise features brought by the different 8.0.x software releases, which are specific to self-hosted deployments (i.e. not applicable to SaaS). See the 8.0 changelog to know more about the split of those features per maintenance release.

Platform compaction RDTP-21050 RDTP-18325

The scope of these features is to rework the MongoDB data model to reduce its footprint and offer higher capacity for the existing self-hosted sizing profiles.

• RDTP-21050 introduces the time series model. Thanks to this new data model, the MongoDB footprint is divided by three for a given target capacity.

• RDTP-18325 optimizes the hourly/daily aggregation of the base station's system load and backhaul statistics.

Key customer benefits

CAPEX/OPEX savings without compromising the system performance.

The gains brought by these enhancements are reflected in the sizing requirements by higher system capacity for each sizing profile, in terms of maximum number of devices, base stations and maximum number of packets/second.

This footprint reduction brings substantial savings to the platform's hosting cost, significantly reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Feature activation

The features described above are automatically activated after upgrading to release 8.0.
However, to simplify the migration process and avoid too long service disruption during the upgrade maintenance window, only the LoRaWAN traffic history of the last 7 days preceding the upgrade is kept after upgrading.

Feature limitations

To optimize Wireless Logger's performances in the new MongoDB data model, starting release 8.0, users can see the traffic belonging to their own devices but they no longer see the roaming traffic forwarded by their gateways to their roaming partners, also known as fNS roaming traffic.