DCP'S

HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers. HTTP is a protocol based on HTTP. It is intended to improve page and object retrieval performance when web servers suffer server side congestion. Examples of server side congestion include the Shoemaker-Levy, Slashdot and flash-crowd effects.

WAP: Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is an open international standard for application-layer network communications in a wireless-communication environment. Most use of WAP involves accessing the mobile web from a mobile phone or from a PDA.

GSM: Global System for Mobile Communication. A network which generally covers a fairly broad geographic area and which offers customized travel, financial, reference and commercial information to smart-phone subscribers.

3G: The Third Generation wireless digital standard for high-speed voice and data networks with maximum transmission rates rated at millions of bits per second (Mbps);

MMS: MMS is a service developed jointly together with 3GPP, allows users to combine sounds with images and text when sending messages, much like the text-only SMS.

GPRS: General packet radio service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data service available to users of the 2G cellular communication systems global system for mobile communications (GSM), as well as in the 3G systems. In 2G systems, GPRS provides data rates of 56-114 kbit/s.

BLUETOOTH: Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs). It was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is one form of the Digital Subscriber Line technology, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional voiceband modem can provide

BROADBAND: a term used to describe a network that can transmit a wide range of signals, including audio and video. Broadband networks are especially useful in the Networked World, as they can carry many signals at once, resulting in faster data transmission.

VOIP: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks.