WIRELESS

APPLICATION
PROTOCOL IN INDIA
 KEY TERMS 
Wireless: Wireless is a term used to describe
telecommunications in which
electromagnetic waves (rather than
some form of wire) carry the signal
over part or all of the
communication path.
 Application: the action of putting something
into operation

 Protocols:
rules determining the format and
transmission of data
WHAT IS WAP?
 A set of protocols which
allow data exchange for
mobile cellular systems
 The current world standard
for the presentation and
delivery of wireless
information
 It is device independent
 It is network independent

A leading standard for information services on wireless terminals

like digital mobile phones.
 CURRENT CONSTRAINTS OF
Wireless Interfaces:
 Less Bandwidth
 High Latency
 Less Stable Connections
 Less Predictable Availability
 Diverse range of network
standards
Mobile Devices:
 Less CPU Power
 Less Memory and Storage
 Restricted Power Consumption
 Small / Variable Sized
Displays
 Variable Input Types
(Keypad, Pen, etc,)
Why Use WAP ?
 Wireless networks and phones
– have specific needs and requirements not addressed by existing
Internet technologies.
 WAP enables any data transport
– TCP/IP, UDP/IP, GUTS (IS-135/6), SMS, or USSD.
 The WAP architecture
– has several modular entities which together form a fully compliant
Internet entity
– all WML content is accessed via HTTP 1.1 requests.
– The same application can be used via several systems

WAP supports several wireless systems

- GSM, IS-136, CDMA, PDC etc.
WHERE WAP IS GOING…

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Driving
 Market Demand

 Interoperability

Forum Ltd.
 2001 Wireless Application Protocol
 Internet / WWW Evolution Doing
 Convergence

 Feature Innovation

 Conformance

Enabling
 Handset evolution
 Standardization
 Wireless net evolution
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WAP FORUM DATES
 26 June - 97 WAP effort launched by
founders
 30 April - 98 WAP 1.0 public available
 30 June – 99 WAP 1.1 public available
 Dec-99 WAP 1.2 launched

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GENERAL IDEA OF WAP

 The Wireless Application Protocol -

defines a network architecture for content
delivery over wireless networks.

 WAP implements several new

networking protocols that perform functions
similar to the well-known Web protocols
HTTP, TCP, etc.

 WAP includes the concepts of browsers,

servers, URLs, and gateways.

 WAP browsers are intended to be

implemented on small mobile devices such
as cell phones, pagers, and PDAs.

 Instead of developing content in HTML

and JavaScript, WAP developers use WML
and WMLScript.
WHAT DOES WAP DO ?

 Get financial information

 Order and buy tickets
 Pay your bills
 Read the news
 Read and send e-mails
 Receive your voice mails
 Make stock queries.
 WAP KEY FEATURES

MARKUP LANGUAGE SCRIPT LANGUAGE

Designed to create Multiple OS like Palm

services for small OS, Java OS, OS/9 etc.
handheld terminals.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY LIGHT WEIGHT PROTOCOL

APPLICTION FRAME STACK
WORK
Designed to minimize
Access to telephony required bandwidth and
related functionality impact of latency.
 The WAP Architecture

Client Web Server

WAP Gateway
WML
CGI

with WML-Script
WML Encoder

WML Decks
WML- Scripts
WSP/WTP WMLScript
HTTP etc.
Script
Compiler
WTAI
Protocol Adapters Content
Etc.
 Network Systems and Technologies
(NeST), Trivandrum.
2 Mbps
3G

115 Kbps
GPRS
Wireless Trends

9.6 Kbps
GSM
 WIRELESS TREND IN NEXT 3 YEARS

1,000
900
800
700 Wireless Device
In Millions

600 Users
500 MobilePhone Use
400
300 Internet PC Users
200
100
0
2003 NOW
Network Systems and Technologies (NeST),
Trivandrum.
 29-Oct-00 Slide #15
GLOBAL SNAPSHOT

 139 carriers deployed or in final

testing
 Tens of thousands of developers
creating apps and content
 10,000 WAP sites from 95
countries
 4.4 million WAP-readable pages
 40 million WAP-enabled handsets
in circulation worldwide
 29-Oct-00 Slide #16
DEVELOPERS EMBRACE WAP

 World class growth, by the highest standards

 Palm– 5 year growth
 WAP – 2 year growth
300,000
250,000
200,000
Palm
150,000
100,000 Aggregated
WAP Mfrs.
Note: WAP Forum estimates include some
50,000
duplication. Palm data from Palm
Computing, Inc. 0
Number of Registered
Developers
 29-Oct-00 Slide #17
WAP CONTENT IS EXPLODING!
More than 4.4 MILLION pages online!

5,000,000
4,500,000
4,000,000
3,500,000
WML Pages From 12/99-8/00
3,000,000
2,500,000 HTML Pages From 6/93-2/94

2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
Dec-99 Jan-00 Feb-00 Mar-00 Apr-00 May-00 Jun-00 Jul-00 Aug-00
Source: Pinpoint.com
 WIRELESS NETWORKING
TECHNOLOGIES (PAN/LAN)
 Flarion Technologies
- OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing)
 GSM
- 3G (A third generation mobile technology)
 Bluetooth
 29-Oct-00 Slide #19
“WAPPLICATIONS” BY THE THOUSANDS -
WORLDWIDE
 Finance - statements, funds transfer, shares trading
 M-billing - notification, presentation and payment of bills
 Enterprise access - inventory, sales updates, email
access
 M-care - customer service, payment status
 Entertainment - games, gambling, interactive multi-
player events
 Messaging - communication and collaboration
 Travel - scheduling, advisories, reservations
 Location-smart services - traffic reports, parking
information, store discounts, event recommendations
 29-Oct-00 Slide #20
A SECURE FOUNDATION FOR WIRELESS
COMMERCE
 Transactions demanding security already
happening over WAP
 Banking (Citicorp, Deutsche, Allied Irish Bank, Schwab)
 Finance (Abbey National and Halifax Bank mortgages online)
 M-Commerce (Amazon.com, MySimon)

 These, and many others, base their future

mobile commerce plans on WAP

 End-to-end encryption and support for PKI

provide highest levels of security
 29-Oct-00 Slide #21
OVER 50 MILLION WAP DEVICES SHIPPED
WORLDWIDE:
 Alcatel One Touch View
 Ericsson MC218
 Ericsson R 320
 Motorola L Series
 Nokia 7110
 Panasonic GD 90
 Phillips - Xenium 939
 Siemens S 35i’s
 Sony CMD-Z5
 Many more - including
new
WAP/Bluetooth/GPRS
handsets coming
CAPITALIZING ON NETWORK AND HANDSET

29-Oct-00 Slide #22

EVOLUTION

 Next generation of WAP will include:

 XHTML
 TCP
 Color graphics
 Animation
 Large file downloading
 Location-smart services
 Streaming media
 Data synchronization with desktop PIM
 29-Oct-00 Slide #23
WAP IN OPERATION IN ASIA…
Online food
delivery service

Olympic news delivered

Chase e-phone
to WAP phones
Expecting 100,000 users

5 Mobile portals
2 active financial sites

Direct link to NZ
stock exchange

Corporate email
via WAP
EZ Web
3.5 MILLION customers
 IN SUMMARY, WAP…

Apr 14, 2010

 Is commercial today, built for tomorrow
 Hasa huge, growing base of developers,

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content, phones and carriers
 Helps carriers optimize bandwidth
 Is secure by design
 Is based on tomorrow’s Internet - XML 
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 Rapidly developing advanced features 1
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