unlox.co.uk - Glossary of Terms - RESULTS:
| Term | Description |
| WAP | A free, unlicensed protocol for wireless communications that makes it possible to create advanced telecommunications services and to access Internet pages from a mobile telephone. WAP is a de facto standard that is supported by a large number of suppliers. See also http://www.wapforum.org |
| WARC | World Administration Radio Conference; an ITU conference held at regular intervals to determine the association of spectrum for various services. |
| WCDMA | Wideband CDMA; the technology created from a fusion of proposals to act as the European entrant for the ITU IMT-2000 family. |
| WILL | Wireless Local Loop; a technique for providing telephony and low speed data services to fixed customers using wireless. Regarded as having considerable potential for rapidly addressing the telecommunications gap in developing countries. A number of different WLL solutions have been marketed based on cellular and cordless technologies. |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network; a short range radio network normally deployed in traffic hotspots such as airport lounges, hotels and restaurants. WLAN enables suitably equipped users to access the fixed network wirelessly, providing high-speed access (up to 11mBit/s download) to distant servers. The key WLAN technologies are the IEEE802.11 family and ETSI HIIPERLAN/2. |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language; a markup language developed specifically for wireless applications. WML is based on XM. |
| WTP | Wireless Transport Protocol |
| WWW | World Wide Web. |
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