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To: Eric L who wrote (8882)	1/20/2001 4:21:18 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Part 4 of GSMA January 2000 AP Workshop - Mannesmann on Terminal Considerations ... as reported by: Ben Wood Mobile Lifestreams 15 January 2001 >> Terminal Considerations Joerg Kramer Mannesmann Vice-Chair SerG When delivering services, ease of use is critical to success, with a user- friendly MMI (man-machine interface) / Portal making it easy for end user to access services. The VHE (the Virtual Home Environment) promises to provide seamless, personalised, consistent service availability for users (particularly when roaming) giving them access to their regular services where ever they are. In conjunction with this, other factors need to be addressed such as charging for services, applications and content so business cases can be established in these areas. Taking GSM today (from a network perspective), a range of services are already defined in the switch, with supplementary services (e.g. Call control). Additional services are offered via IN (Intelligent Network) and service nodes such as voice mail, SMS-C,CBC (Cell Broadcast Center) etc. From a terminal perspective, SIM Application toolkit (and (U)SAT) can offer personalisation and service delivery for terminals and Web / WAP browsers provide access to content with future enhancements coming from MExE / Java as well as the integration of a Multimedia Player on future terminals. With all (or a combination) of these tools, the terminals can act as a service "hub" for future services. The speaker expanded on 3 key areas that will be crucial to future terminal evolution with regards to services delivery: WEB / WAP Browsers: Current market has several options - WEB (HTML), WAP (WML) and i-mode (C-HTML). The vision is that there will be a convergence of standards as XML evolves. MExE / Java: (see www.mobileMExE.com for more info) Offers three Classmarks for different services: Classmark 1: WAP / WTA Classmark 2: Personal Java (e.g. Nokia 9210) Classmark 3: CLDC / MIDP with JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Classmark 3 allows small "untrusted" applications to be delivered to the terminal making it extremely attractive to the application development community - e.g. Gaming. This standard also offers an excellent security framework with PKI secure certificates and a range of security domains (trusted and untrusted) Multimedia Terminal Player: This type of player is necessary for the support of 3G services and applications such as video streaming, audio streaming, MMS Multimedia Messaging - see www.mobileMMS.com) etc. Currently Internet players such as Real Networks, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Multimedia player dominate this market. These players are not ideally suited to the wireless environment but it is expected that solutions will evolve to address the growing opportunity. In conclusion the speaker felt that the terminal was one of the key areas for application delivery in the future. << - Eric -