A wireless application service provider (WASP) is the generic name for a firm that provides remote services, typically to handheld devices that connect to wireless data networks such as cellphones or PDAs. WASPs are a specific category of application service provider

Application service provider

An application service provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service ....

s (ASPs), though the latter term may more often be associated with standard web services. They can also be used for wireless bridging

Bridging (networking)

Bridging is a forwarding technique used in packet-switched computer networks. Unlike routing, bridging makes no assumptions about where in a network a particular address is located. Instead, it depends on flooding and examination of source addresses in received packet headers to locate unknown...

 between different types of network topologies

Network topology

Network topology is the layout pattern of interconnections of the various elements of a computer or biological network....

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