Mobile gateways allow your users to use WAP and SMS protocols to connect to servers and access services and content. The gateway a standard interface for connecting to e-mail, calendars and other applications via mobile devices such as GSM and GPRS phones. They can also support connections from PDAs and handheld computers via the Wireless LAN (WLAN) or even Bluetooth.
The Realwow Mobile Gateway works in conjunction with their Mobile Connectivity Server (MCS). The gateway lets SMS services interface with the HTTP protocol and allows for messages longer than the standard 160 characters by concatenating or splitting longer messages automatically via the software, without any requirement for user action. Such messages appear as a single message on phones that support this feature. The mobile gateway works with all HTTP Web servers. Trial versions of the Mobile Gateway and Mobile Connectivity Server software are available for download from the Realwow Web site.
Managing mobile traffic
Products such as Big-IP, a hardware-based solution from F5 Networks, can help you to route application traffic to the appropriate server as it comes into the network, so that SMS traffic goes to SMSC gateways, traffic from handheld computers can be directed to specific servers, and so forth. It can also increase performance by offloading SSL processing, perform health checking and enforce security measures. It allows you to integrate your mobile applications with the rest of your IP applications in a centralised solution.
The need for scalability
It's particularly important, when planning a mobile connectivity solution, to plan for scalability. It's likely that only a subset of your company's employees will take advantage of mobile connectivity at first, but as capable devices become more affordable and thus more ubiquitous, more of them will want to avail themselves of the technology. You need to be ready to add the capacity for supporting more mobile users as demand grows. Before deploying a mobile connectivity solution, ensure that it can handle that growth.
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