Trying Out LEAP Mohsen Banan public@mohsen.banan.1.byname.net Version 0.4 First Published: June 12, 1998 Last Updated: June 12, 2000 Copyright fcl 1998-2000 Mohsen Banan Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. A Component of The LEAP Manifesto This article is one of a series of articles describing various aspects of the Mobile Messaging industry and the LEAP protocols. For the complete collection of articles see The LEAP Manifesto [2 ], available at http://www.LeapForum.org/LEAP/Manifesto/roadMap/index.html. The LEAP Manifesto is also available at the Free Proto- cols Foundation website at http://www.FreeProtocols.org/LEAP/Manifesto/roadMap/index.html. 1 Contents List of Figures List of Tables 2 All the technologies, products and services required to implement LEAP-based messaging solutions are com- plete and ready to go. LEAP is not vaporware; it is real and available for implementation now. Anyone who is interested in LEAP is invited to try a hands-on demonstration for themselves. All the com- ponents required to allow anyone to try out our products and services are in place. For complete details, see the announcement entitled: Announcing Free Availability of Neda Communication Inc.'s Enhanced Two-Way Paging (ETWP) Products and Services For WindowsCE Hand-Held PCs over CDPD and Wireless IP Neda-ETWP-wce-gold-1.2 June 12, 1998 This announcement is available at http://www.neda.com/products/Neda-ETWP/gold-1.2/wce/announce/announce.html[1 ]. This announcement provides complete information about EVERYTHING that you need to turn your WinCE device into a fully functional Mobile Messaging device. Specif- ically, it describes: 1. Buying a CDPD modem and getting a CDPD ac- count from your cellular service provider. 2. Configuring your WinCE device to work with your CDPD modem. 3. Getting an Enhanced Two-Way Paging (ETWP) ac- count from Neda. 4. Loading Neda's Enhanced Two-Way Paging prod- uct into your WinCE device. 5. Sending and receiving messages. References [1] Neda Communications Inc. Announcing Free Avail- ability Of ETWP Product. Neda Published Doc- ument 105-101-06.03, Neda Communications Inc, Bellevue, WA, October 1996. Online document is available at http://www.neda.com/pubs/biblio/105- 101-06-03/index.html. 3 [2] Mohsen Banan. Lightweight & Efficient Applica- tion Protocol (LEAP) Manifesto. Technical Re- port 108-101-01, LEAP Forum, Bellevue, WA, January 2000. Online document is available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/pubs/biblio/108-101- 01/index.html. 4