WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL (WAP)
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The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a new advanced intelligent messaging service for digital mobile phones and other mobile terminals that will allow you to see Internet content in special text format on special WAP-enabled mobile phones. Enabling information access from handheld devices requires a deep understanding of both technical and market issues that are unique to the wireless environment. The WAP specification was developed by the industry’s best minds to address these issues. Wireless devices represent the ultimate constrained computing device with limited CPU, memory and battery life and a simple user interface. Wireless networks are constrained by low bandwidth, high latency and unpredictable availability and stability. The WAP specification addresses these issues by using the best of existing standards and developing new extensions when needed. The WAP solution leverages the tremendous investment in web servers, web development tools, web programmers and web applications while solving the unique problems associated with the wireless domain. The specification ensures that this solution is fast, reliable and secure. The WAP specification is developed and supported by the wireless telecommunication community so that the entire industry and its subscribers can benefit from a single, open specification.
The WAP forum
The WAP specification was developed by the WAP forum, a consortium founded by the telecommunication giants Nokia, Ericsson, Phone.com and Motorola. The WAP forum’s membership roster now includes computer industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Intel along with several hundred other companies. The WAP forum is an industry group dedicated to the goal of enabling sophisticated telephony and information services on handheld wireless devices. The WAP forum has drafted a global wireless protocol specification for all wireless networks and is contributing it to various industry groups and standard bodies. This WAP specification by the WAP forum enables manufacturers, network operators, content providers and application developers to offer compatible products and secure services on all devices and networks, resulting in greater economies of scale and universal access to information.
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