• DocumentCode
    1395992
  • Title

    The hard road ahead for WAP

  • Author

    Williams, Joseph

  • Author_Institution
    Adv. Internet Practice Group, Sun Microsyst., USA
  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2000
  • Lastpage
    71
  • Abstract
    Recent "digital home" and "digital office" demonstration projects by Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and others have shown, that we are on the verge of wiring pretty much everything we can into Internet-capable networks. Similarly, all the recent market enthusiasm for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) foreshadows a coming boom in networking wireless devices. Or does it? The author discusses the fact that although the Wireless Application Protocol shows great promise, to succeed it must overcome many inherent limitations.
  • Keywords
    Internet telephony; cellular radio; protocols; Internet-capable networks; WAP; Wireless Application Protocol; digital home; digital office; market enthusiasm; networking wireless devices; Computer displays; IP networks; Joining processes; Markup languages; Mobile handsets; Printers; Sun; Web and internet services; Wireless application protocol; Wiring;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    IT Professional
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1520-9202
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MITP.2000.877500
  • Filename
    877500