Want to WAP, but can?t afford a WAP gateway? It had to happen? A company called WapIT is now producing Kannel, an open source WAP and SMS gateway which could have you jumping on the wireless bandwagon language, scripting language, and the transmission protocols for wireless use. The optimized protocols are translated to plain old before you know it. WAP lets a mobile acts simple web browser, but optimizes the markup HTTP by a WAP gateway. Kannel provides this essential part of the WAP infrastructure freely to everyone so that, the coders say, ?market potential for WAP services, both from wireless operators and specialized service providers, will be realized as efficiently as possible.? Kannel also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks. Almost all GSM phones can send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more clients than just those using a new WAP phone. Open Source is a way to formalise the principle of openness by placing the source code of a product under a Open Source compliant software license. The BSD-style license of this developmental WAP gateway was chosen over other Open Source licenses by the merit of placing the least amount of limitations on what a third party is able to do with the source code. In practice this means that Kannel will hopefully turn out to be a fully-featured WAP implementation and compatible with a maximum amount of bearers with special emphasis on SMSC compatibility. The Kannel project was founded by WapIT Ltd. in June, 1999. WapIT Ltd. was founded on October 6th 1998 in Helsinki, Finland to organize the work of the team which had built the most extensive set of SMS services so far. WapIT Ltd. acts as a content innovator and a packager for wireless services, and is a member of the WAP Forum. You can join the Kannel discussion list at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)/*<![CDATA[*/var l=new Array();var output = '';l[0]='>';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='<';l[4]=' 103';l[5]=' 114';l[6]=' 111';l[7]=' 46';l[8]=' 108';l[9]=' 101';l[10]=' 110';l[11]=' 110';l[12]=' 97';l[13]=' 107';l[14]=' 64';l[15]=' 108';l[16]=' 101';l[17]=' 118';l[18]=' 101';l[19]=' 100';l[20]='>';l[21]='\"';l[22]=' 103';l[23]=' 114';l[24]=' 111';l[25]=' 46';l[26]=' 108';l[27]=' 101';l[28]=' 110';l[29]=' 110';l[30]=' 97';l[31]=' 107';l[32]=' 64';l[33]=' 108';l[34]=' 101';l[35]=' 118';l[36]=' 101';l[37]=' 100';l[38]=':';l[39]='o';l[40]='t';l[41]='l';l[42]='i';l[43]='a';l[44]='m';l[45]='\"';l[46]='=';l[47]='f';l[48]='e';l[49]='r';l[50]='h';l[51]='a ';l[52]='<';for (var i = l.length-1; i >= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') output += "&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"; else output += unescape(l[i]);}document.getElementById('eeEncEmail_IUUQbPbbDS').innerHTML = output;/*]]>*/, or visit the web site: www.kannel.org to find out more about the OS WAP Gateway.