What does wap mean? Caldi B.

WAP generally refers to the acronym of English wireless application protocol, that is, wireless application communication protocol, which is a global network communication protocol.

Users can easily access and obtain Internet or intranet information and various services in a unified content format by using mobile devices. Such as comprehensive news, weather forecast, stock market dynamics, business reports, current exchange rate, business information, etc.

With the deepening of WAP application, e-commerce and online banking will be gradually realized on WAP in the future. Users can also get sports achievements, entertainment anecdotes and humorous stories anytime and anywhere through WAP to add interest to life; You can also use the online booking function of WAP to make your life orderly.

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The goal of WAP is to introduce rich information and advanced services from the Internet into wireless terminals such as mobile phones. It optimizes the design according to the characteristics of low bandwidth and high delay of wireless network, and introduces a series of Internet protocol specifications into wireless network. WAP only needs the support of mobile phone and WAP proxy server.

Without any changes to the existing mobile communication network protocols. Therefore, it is suitable for CDMA, GSM, IMT-2000 and other different mobile communication systems. In addition, WAP uses the ROM, RAM, CPU and other resources of handheld devices as little as possible, and makes up for the defects of handheld devices by strengthening the functions of the network.

Micro-browser technology based on Internet standard enables handheld devices to determine the display mode of information according to their different display and input modes. In this way, all kinds of terminals, from the simplest mobile phone to multifunctional PDA or notebook computer, can receive the same information and resources.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wireless Application Protocol