WAP (Wireless Access Protocol)

A carrier-independent, device-independent, transaction-oriented

protocol employed in Web-enabled cellular networks in support of text, graphics, and audio.The best performance is achieved when accessing Web sites written in WML (Wireless Markup Language), which is similar to HTML. The alternative is transcoding from HTML to WML, which is accomplished through gateways.A much simpler, but much less attractive technique is Web clipping, which strips the graphic content out of Web pages. Security over the wireless link is provided through Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS).WAP is employed outside of Japan, where the i-Mode microbrowser technology is employed.

See also browser, carrier, cellular, i-Mode, protocol, Web, and WML.

• OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
• offered load
• off-hook
• off-hook voice announce
• off-premises extension (OPX)
• off-premises station (OPS)
• offset quadrature phase shift keying (OQPSK)
• offshoring
• OFN (Optical Fiber, Nonconductive)
• OFNP (Optical Fiber, Nonconductive, Plenum)
• OFNR (Optical Fiber, Nonconductive, Riser)
• OH
• Ohm, Georg Simon (1787–1854)
• Ohm’s Law
• Ohm’s Law
• OLT (Optical Line Terminal)
• OLT (Optical Line Terminal)
• Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA 93)
• OMR (Optical Mark Recognition)
• ones density
• on-hook
• ONT (Optical Network Terminal)
• ONU (Optical Network Unit)
• OOO (Optical-Optical-Optical)
• opaque OXC (opaque Optical CROSS-Connect)