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Unit 10: Email Integration

10.3 Summary Notes

 The wireless telecommunication and the Internet are rapidly growing industries that are
gaining more and more customers everyday.

 The WAP intention is to combine these two markets and answer the new demands in this
field.

 These reasons and more driven some of the largest vendors to unite and create the WAP
Forum, the standardizing organization of the WAP.
 The Nokia over-the-air (OTA) configuration proposal to the WAP Forum describes the use
of a connectionless push over the SMS bearer, to transfer the configuration data to the
handset.

 WAP incorporates no compression techniques for the textual content, although the WML
markup commands are compressed.
 Unified messaging involves providing a single interface for people to access the various
kinds of messaging they use.
 Instant messaging is a cross between chat and email that allows people to view a listing
of people they frequently communicate with, determine if these people are currently
available for communication (i.e. online), and send and receive messages instantaneously.
 A wide range of content can be delivered to mobile phone users ranging from share
prices, sports scores, weather, flight information, news headlines, lottery results, jokes
and so on.

 This information need not necessary be textual, it may be maps or graphs or other types of
visual information.

10.4 Keywords

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service

MMI: Man Machine Interface
OTA: Over The Air
PDU: Protocol Data Unit
WIM: Wireless Identification Module
WSP: Wireless Session Layer

WSLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security

10.5 Review Questions

1. WAP specifications extend existing mobile networking technologies. Explain.
2. Wireless hand-held devices preset a more constrained computing environment and
platforms. Discuss.
3. The wireless networks present greater problems as communication infrastructures they
have less bandwidth. Comment.

4. The WAP programming model is similar to the WWW programming model. Do you
agree with this statement? Why or why not?

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