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Wireless Application Protocol: MMS Encapsulation Protocol

Overview Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a system application by which a WAP client is able to provide a messaging operation with a variety of media types. The service is described in terms of actions taken by the WAP MMS Client and its service partner, the MMS Proxy -Relay, a device which operates as a WAP Origin Server for this specialized service. This paper describes the content and encodings of the protocol data units (PDUs) for the multimedia messaging service.

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Publisher	Open Mobile Alliance	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2001	Downloads	29
Format	White Papers
Topics	WAP, Multimedia, Web Protocols

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