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Im Aimee Simmons im a student at weymouth college and I am studying Interactive Media. And this is what my blog is going to be about.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Homework. WAP & GSM

WAP
(wireless application protocol)
Is a type of Internet connection. It makes the web more accessible. For example wireless Internet, for laptops and mobile phones. It is based on Internet standards. (HTML, XML and TCP/IP).  A few examples of WAP that are useful -
  • Checking train table information
  • Ticket purchase
  • Flight check in
  • Viewing traffic information
  • Checking weather conditions
  • Looking up stock values
  • Looking up phone numbers
  • Looking up addresses
  • Looking up sport results
  • checking emails
GSM
(Global System for Mobile communications)
This is a protocol which is very popular in many different parts of the world. GSM digitizes and compresses data, then sends it down a channel with two other streams of user data, each in its own time slot. It operates at either the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz frequency band.

I found WAP easy to  understand and write about, but with GCM I found it alot harder to understand. I think i will need to do more research into it to get a better understanding on what it is and what it does.

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