a network node serving as a bridge between the wireless network and the Internet
an intermediary between the Internet and the mobile network
a piece of software between WAP device and the web server
a server that typically resides within the wireless carrier's network but may also reside within a corporate business environment
a server through which all wireless ( WAP ) data is transferred from wireless devices (using WAP requests) to content sites (in WML format) and back again
a software entity within the mobile network
a special server machine that sits between WAP devices and the Web
A WAP gateway is a two-way device, with the WAP device on one side, and the web server on the other. The task of the WAP gateway is to convert content into that suitable for a WAP device. On the web server's side the gateway can provide additional information about the WAP device through items such as HTTP headers.
Server based in a wireless carrier that transfers data between mobile technology and content sites.
The WAP Gateway is the interface between the Internet and mobile networks. Requests come from the browser and arrive at the gateway. The gateway collects the requested data using the Internet from a Web server, compiling the content and then sends the answer back to the cell phone.
A WAP gateway is a two-way device (as any gateway). Looking at if from the WAP device's side, since a WAP device can only understand WML in its tokenized/compiled/binary format, the function of the WAP gateway is to convert content into this format. Looking at it from the HTTP server's side, the WAP gateway can provide additional information about the WAP device through the HTTP headers, for instance the subscriber number of a WAP capable cellular phone, its cell id and even things like location information (whenever that becomes available).
A WAP gateway is a two-way software. Its main function is to offload the WAP mobile device from a lot of computational layers.
Software that takes raw WML data and compiles it for the microbrowser and vice versa.
A WAP Gateway acts as a bridge allowing WAP devices to communicate with other networks (namely the Internet).
Forms a bridge between two distinct worlds, the Internet (or another IP packet network) and the wireless phone/data network, which use fundamentally different underlying technologies.
A WAP gateway sits between mobile devices using the WAP protocol and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy. This translates pages into a form suitable for the mobiles, for instance using the Wireless Markup Language (WML). This process is hidden from the phone, so it may access the page in the same way as a browser accesses HTML, using a URL (for example, http://example.com/foo.wml), provided the mobile phone operator has not specifically prevented this.
