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.

• insulation
• insulator
• insure
• integrated access device (IAD)
• integrated circuit
• integrated messaging
• integrated services digital network (ISDN)
• Integrated Services LAN (ISLAN)
• intellectual property
• intelligent network (IN)
• intelligent peripheral (IP)
• Interactive Video and Data Services (IVDS)
• interactive voice response (IVR)
• intercom
• interexchange carrier (IEC or IXC)
• interface
• interface data unit (IDU)
• interference
• interferometer
• interframe compression
• Interim Standard 136 (IS-136)
• Interim Standard 2000-A (IS-2000-A)
• Interim Standard 54 (IS-54)
• Interim Standard 856 (IS-856)
• Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP)