Mobile computing
Standards to transmit TCP/IP over cellular connection
- CDPD - Cellular Digital Packet Data (uses its own suite of protocols to encapsulate TCP/IP data over the air link); rate: 19.2 Kbps
- CSC - Circuit Switched Cellular (after dialing you receive a dedicated link for data transmission with SLIP or PPP); rate: 1.2-14.4 Kbps
Wireless services:
- Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR) Rate: 4.8 Kbps
- Bi-directional satellite
- Personal Communication Services (PCs)
- Spread-spectrum system based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA); Rate up to 76 Kbps