WAP software, tools and utilities

The Anny Way carrier WAP gateway is an open platform and supports every WAP compliant mobile device. This includes authentication, billing and personalisation of services - regardless of whether the handset supports connection-oriented or connectionless WSP.

Audicode Ltd. produce a WAP Server/Gateway product. It is an affordable application, especially designed for smaller companies and for Intranet purposes. Audicode is a Finnish software company founded in March 1999. Their aim is to create competitive wireless solutions with the latest technology available. Currently, they are concentrating on WAP devices and applications, and also preparing for the 3rd generation mobile phone technology.

Ericsson'sEnterprise WAP Gateway/Proxy software provides specialized tools for easy operation and maintenance of the node. The areas which the operation and maintenance can be divided into are subscriber provisioning, fault management, performance management, configuration management and, billing support.

Feather Mobile Systems aims to solve the problem arising out of the multiple standards and interoperability issues between wireless Internet devices. Our cross platform solution "GWAP", transforms wireless content to a variety of wireless devices. It enables applications to invisibly "talk" optimally and automatically with different types of wireless devices, while GWAP is being responsible for the device specific adjustments, corrections and optimizations. When new devices enter the market, GWAP is updated accordingly thus omitting the need to modify the service applications.

Internova's flagship Instar product enables device detection, provides device adapters for content management/caching/repurposing, location detection and mobile commerce.

Kannel is not just a WAP gateway. It also works as an SMS gateway. Although WAP is the hot and technically superior technology, SMS phones exist in huge numbers and SMS services are thus quite useful. Therefore, Kannel functions simultaneously as both a WAP and an SMS gateway.

Lutris Enhydra Wireless is the only protocol- and device- independent application server that enables developers to target the broadest potential markets. Many new applications must be designed to support both browser-based and wireless clients, including Internet-capable phones, PDAs, and pagers. Lutris Enhydra Wireless leverages Java™ and XML to create an extensible, device-independent architecture that supports current and future wireless presentation technologies. With its unique Enhydra XMLC technology, a single Lutris Enhydra Wireless application easily can deliver content to any client, including HTML, WML, XHTML, cHTML, VoiceXML, and Java devices. Further, each client persona can be optimized to fit the user interface requirements of the particular device.

MobileDev is the first Wireless Development Environment (WDE) specifically for WAP Internet applications. Its innovative open-ended development model integrates a graphical application mapper with a wizard interface and a rich tool set. Versatile enough to satisfy the most demanding professional, MobileDev supports WAP technologies like WML, HDML, Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Perl and Java Server Pages (JSP).

Neomar Microbrowser: Neomar's standards-based browsers take your applications to various PDA platforms, lowering your development and training costs by deploying a single application on multiple devices. Plus, Neomar's next-generation security means your applications run securely on all devices. Advanced features, such as full cookie support and local bookmarks make for a more compelling, value-added user experience.

Neomar Wireless Gateway: Neomar's Wireless Gateway connects the wired world to the world of wireless packet data networks from companies like BellSouth Wireless Data, Motient, AT&T, and Verizon. And, Neomar's modular design lets you add network protocols as your customer base grows.

The Nokia WAP Server 1.1 is a Wireless Application Protocol server software product available for Windows NT and Unix platforms. It is an open software platform that enables mobile connectivity to a company's legacy information systems, Internet and Extranet services.

Mobile Connectivity Server (MCS) is a key element in mobile access to corporate intranet and Internet services. Through MCS component a multitude of wireless terminals can access corporate intranets.

MCS is a scalable component that takes care of the user and terminal authentication. Authentication is needed to provide access only to authenticated users. Authentication can be based on e.g. user ID and password pairs, certificates or other systems. Based on authentication access can be granted to different parts of intranet and its applications.

Mobile Gateway enables a multitude of wireless terminals to access corporate intranet and Internet services. A gateway is needed since not a single standard of communication is available and capacity of mobile terminals varies a lot. Mobile Gateway 3.0 enables both WAP and SMS protocol based access using GSM and GPRS phones.

If connection is made using PDAs or other devices providing native browser functionality over the GSM, GPRS, WLAN, Bluetooth or other wireless network Mobile Connectivity server takes care of terminal and user authentication and optimises data for the mobile terminal in use.

Waporizer, from Dimon software, is a software solution that uniquely enables companies to leverage all existing enterprise content assets from files, web servers, databases or applications straight to the mobile Internet .

Ztango.com's WAP and SMS gateways allow connection to and communication via the WAP-enabled wireless Internet as well as the mass delivery of application-driven targeted SMS messages. Ztango.com gateways provide a platform from which corporations, e-companies, and wireless network operators can launch value-added services.