STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its first two products supporting the Wireless Application Protocol at the GSM Asia-Pacific Congress in Singapore.
The products are the WAP Gateway and a WAP Service Developers’ Kit for service and content providers.
The WAP Gateway was created for Global System for Mobile communications operators. It is a network node providing direct connection between the mobile network and dedicated Internet application servers, acting as a client of these servers, and can be accessed by unstructured supplementary services data, short message services or Internet protocol. Field trials are scheduled for later this year, with commercial availability expected in mid-1999.
The WAP Service Developers’ Kit is a suite of design tools to develop WAP-compatible online services. With it, applications can be developed without the need for a detailed knowledge of the protocol’s wireless markup language. The kit will be available in November.
