Glossary

Mobile Device Management has become more important as mobile devices such as cell phones, smart phones, and wireless PDAs become more powerful and sophisticated. Mobile Device Management is emerging as a vital way for businesses to cut IT costs, boost network efficiencies, and improve security for enterprises as well as small and medium-sized businesses. The possibilities offered by Mobile Device Management are only just being realized, as new technologies come to the market and initial deployments are taking place.

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Mobile enterprise is a generic term given to the growing market for business-related data applications over wireless, wide-area networks. Mobile enterprise solutions, also referred to as mobile workforce solutions, typically provide business users with seamless access to corporate email, applications, and services from any place, at any time, via mobile phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a method of storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags (or transponders). An RFID tag is a small object (usually a chip) that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person. RFID tags contain antennas that enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver.

Wireless VoIP is the term used to describe VoIP services that operate over a wireless network. Most current wVoIP applications are targeted at mobile professionals and students spread out over a wide area or working in locations that are difficult to access and hardwire.

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Wireless local area networks (WLANs) use a technology called WiFi, or Wi-Fi, to create a small-scale wireless networks that have a typical radius of several hundred feet. The most prevalent form of WLAN technology is called WiFi, which encompasses a host of standards including 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. Wireless Internet via WiFi offers blazing fast data speeds (11Mbps at the low end with 802.11b and 54 Mbps at the high end for 802.11a and 802.11g). While WiFi technology does not offer the degree of ubiquity that wide area networks do, the fast data speeds and relatively cheap costs of setting up a WiFi-based WLAN have spurred it ahead in the market.

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Wireless local area networks (WLANs) are small-scale wireless networks with a typical radius of several hundred feet. The most prevalent form of WLAN technology is called WiFi, which encompasses a host of standards including 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. Wireless Internet via WiFi offers blazing fast data speeds (11Mbps at the low end with 802.11b and 54 Mbps at the high end for 802.11a and 802.11g). While WiFi technology does not offer the degree of ubiquity as wide area networks, the fast data speeds and relatively cheap costs of setting up a WiFi-based WLAN have spurred it ahead in the market.

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Wireless email (or mobile email) is the transmission of email messages from one user to another via a wireless network. When most people refer to wireless email, they are talking about the use of email on a wireless or mobile device, such as a BlackBerry, wireless PDA, or smart phone.

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ZigBee is a published specification set of wireless communication protocols designed to use small, low power radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for long range wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs). The relationship between the IEEE 802.15.4 standard and the ZigBee Alliance -- a group of companies promoting the use of 802.15.4 technology -- is similar to that between the IEEE 802.11 family of wireless LAN technologies and the WiFi Alliance. The specifications for ZigBee 1.0 were ratified in December 2004 and are available to members of the ZigBee Alliance.

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