The internet cell phone...one step closer.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1999--Ericsson's new WebOnAir solution significantly increases the efficiency of wireless downloading of web pages to a laptop PC, Personal Digital Assistant or a mobile phone with a web browser. For users, it makes wireless downloading of web pages up to four times faster.
The solution is another step for Ericsson in bridging wireline and wireless Internet access to further grow the market for wireless IP services. The first operator to install WebOnAir is German Mannesmann. They have already launched their first service based on the Ericsson solution.
The Ericsson solution, called WebOnAir Filter Proxy, filters out non-essential HTML code, adapts image quality and compresses information before it is transmitted to the wireless user. By slimming down the amount of bandwidth needed to carry IP-based services, the solution is another enabler for a mass market for IP services over wireless networks.
Today, over 70 percent of the data on an average Web page is graphical, which requires significant bandwidth to send over wireless networks. If downloading web pages takes too long an average business user, especially remote access users over a wireless connection, simply will refrain from accessing remotely.
For users, WebOnAir makes wireless web browsing significantly more attractive, further supporting remote usage and wireless Internet accessibility. It is a practical and simple solution, adding convenient benefits when using wireless Internet services.
With WebOnAir, average downloading becomes two to four times faster. Depending on the graphical character of the information, the time to download a simple web page with WebOnAir is reduced from 60 seconds to 20 or faster. The biggest user benefit though, is for accessing larger documents or typical graphics-intense home pages that currently take, for example, 3 minutes to download to a wireless device. That same information can be accessed in 1 minute or less with WebOnAir - downloading times that make web services attractive for wireless users. |
