By 2003, an estimated 1 billion mobile phones will be in use worldwide. Of these, over 500 million will support wireless Internet access. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open global specification that enables protocol conversion between the two environments - mobile telephony and the Internet - through the use of a WAP gateway.

Already the demand for mobile Internet access has progressed from simple information requests for weather, news headlines and sports scores to the requirement for secure and reliable wireless access for Internet eBusiness applications including banking, stock trading, betting, and shopping, as well as many other transaction-based services.Interpole creates the link for mobile phones to interface with eBusiness back-office solutions and data sources via a managed multi-channel gateway capable of supporting tens of thousands of concurrent users (with ample capacity for growth). We provide security from the phone to the data centre, seamless integration with existing systems, offering transaction integrity on all business critical applications.