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The security risk makes the WAP gateway a primary target for hacker attacks.

Service Providers will use the WAP Gateway to host WAP services.

The Interop Technologies WAP Gateway is an integrated, push proxy solution with a graphic-rich WAP deck customized with the look and feel of the operator's brand.

The company said that it has a stated mission to use the best quality technology available, and with this in mind it chose Jataayu's WAP Gateway and Telenity's Canvas Multimedia Messaging Services Centre.

Finnish telecomms solutions provider Nokia said on Tuesday (9 March) that it had signed an agreement with the Chinese mobile operator Guangdong Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd (MCC) on the supply of Nokia's WAP Gateway solution.

For secure applications, the 3000AS combines on a single platform the WAP gateway functionality with Virtual Private Networking (VPN) to allow secure access to WAP content from a remote location over the Internet.

Nokia offers operators what few others in the industry can: not only a WAP-enabled terminal, but also a complete WAP solution that includes WAP gateways, customized portals, tools for WAP-based content creation, security components, and systems integration services," said Steve Ballard, director of Messaging & Service Platforms, Nokia Networks.

The WAP Gateway (also called the uplink server) acts as a proxy server between the traditional Internet network and the wireless client.

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Vodafone has become the UK's first mobile network to introduce a full Managed WAP Gateway and a range of WAP-based services for corporates, giving businesses a new route to reach their customers and improve their organization's efficiency.

Developers will be able to test their applications' use of PAP against a real WAP Gateway to verify that their applications can begin taking advantage of WAP's standard push delivery mechanism.

InterOP Technologies has more than 100 product deployments of Ringback platforms, Premium Short Messaging Service (SMS), WAP Gateway, MMS and its Total Content Solution(TM) (TCS) with more than 40 North American wireless carriers.

According to First Hop, Content Push is also the first push proxy gateway that is not embedded into a WAP gateway, which means that the product does not require a WAP gateway to send push messages.

com has demonstrated the iobox WAP gateway functionality as an exhibitor at the 2000 GSM World Congress, the world's largest GSM-specific exhibition, currently underway.

Designed for companies wishing to provide interactive access to their databases via mobile phone to out-of-office staff, the system includes a Nokia Artuse WAP gateway running on Hewlett-Packard's HP L2000 Unix machine, application servers, a proxy server and a firewall.