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Wireless Technology

Wireless technology is a booming business that is finding far reaching benefits on a global level. Corporations, schools, homes, and cafes are implementing wireless solutions as individual organizations and users seek more freedom and constant access. Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) is the latest buzzword to capture the market in our individual quest for access anywhere at any time. All of this comes at a price. Security is a major concern moving forward, as well as having too much access that does not lead to needed personal downtime. In the end what is more valuable, access or secure access at the right time?

Wireless Technology Overview

According to VoiceandData.com (2005), wireless "refers to communications, monitoring or control systems in which electromagnetic or acoustic waves carry a signal through atmospheric space rather than along a wire". In short, wireless access is a means in which one can connect to a Wireless Access Point (WAP), or WiFi spot without needing physical access.

Although there are more and more installations of wireless access going on every day in our businesses and homes, I would guess that many of us do not know the underlying layers of wireless access, including myself. That said I was able to find, but not validate, the following information that describes the layers of the wireless access protocol and the origin of WAP.

According to Chris Bennett's, Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev (2001), the layers of WAP consist of Wireless Application Environment (WAE), Wireless Session Layer (WSL), Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS), and Wireless Transport Layer (WTP). WAP was invented by four companies: Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet (now P...

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... Where will it be acceptable to not have access or will there be such a thing as a location where access is not available? Will there be a virtual net covering the globe that provides readily available access to multiple mediums and how will security, profiles, and cache be handled? What will the future bring?

References

Voice & Data ONLINE. Glossary of Terms and Acronyms. Retrieved October 24, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.voiceanddata.com.au/vd/admin/glossary.asp?fn=display&keyword=W

Bennett, C. Building Dynamic WAP Applications with MobileDev. Retrieved October 24, 2005 from the World Wide Web:

http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=23999&seqNum=1&rl=1

Macworld Daily News. On the buses - the next WiFi Hotspots. Retrieved October 24, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=12959&Page=1&pagePos=1

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