WHAT KIND OF WIRELESS SUPPORT DOES THE ALTEON APPLICATION SWITCH OFFER?
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open, global specification for a suite of protocols designed to allow wireless devices to communicate and interact with other devices. It empowers mobile users with wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services instantly by allowing non-voice data, such as text and images, to pass between these devices and the Internet. Wireless devices include cellular phones, pagers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and other hand-held devices. WAP supports most wireless networks and is supported by all operating systems with the goal of inter-operability. A WAP Gateway translates Wireless Markup Language (WML) – which is a WAP version of HTML–into HTML/HTTP so that requests for information can be serviced by traditional Web servers. To load balance WAP traffic among available parallel servers, the switch must provide persistency so that the clients can always go to the same WAP gateway to perform WAP operation. The Alteon Ap
