Enabling hardware for connectivity providers, such as network operators and wireless service providers, entails wireless LAN hardware, network interface cards, wireless routers, switches, hubs, transceivers, firewalls, access points, mobile switching centers, base stations (towers), base station controllers, and a slew of other, transmission-related components. Hosting companies rely on HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol), SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol), and NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) servers, mobile application servers, transaction, video and chip servers, and other devices, again too many to discuss in detail.

Last, we need to briefly mention the groups of companies that provide the behind-the-scenes hardware that enable wireless transactions and security. Examples of enabling devices surrounding security include, for example, those companies that manufacture and distribute biometric identification technologies that verify the user’s identity via fingerprints, voice prints, or retinal images before the wireless device can be activated. Such devices are still very expensive and just recently begun to enter the mass market. Although the more complex identification systems, such as retinal scanners, are currently confined to high-security environments, there are now PDAs available that are activated by your fingerprint.

Taken From : Enterprise Guide to Gaining Business Value from Mobile Technologies

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