WAE: Wireless Application Environment
The Wireless Application Environment (WAE) is the top-most level in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite, which combines both the WWW and Mobile Telephony technologies. WAE provides the operators and service providers with an interoperable environment on which they can build applications and services for hand-held client devices. WAE includes the micro-browser that contains functionality for using not only WML and WML Script as previously stated, but also Wireless Telephony Application, namely (WTA and WTAI) -- telephony services and programming interfaces as well as content formats including well-defined data formats, images, phone book records and calendar information.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum

WAIS: Wide Area Information Server
Wide Area Information Server(WAIS) is a distributed database protocol developed to search for information over a network. WAIS supports full-text databases, which allow an entire document to be searched for a match. WAIS system has been replaced by the Web based search engines. There are few, if any, WAIS servers in existence on the Internet today.
Standard Organization: ANSI
Reference Document: ANSI Z39.50

WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) refers to a group of related technologies and protocols widely used as a de facto standard protocol in providing Internet access to mobile phones or other thin-client devices. Typical use of the WAP protocol involves a website transmitting scaled-down versions of normal web pages specifically optimized for use by wireless telecommunications devices. When used with Wireless Markup Language (WML), for example, hyperlinks can be accessed by the numbers of 0 through 9 in addition to assigned hotkeys on a user's phone.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum / OMA

WaRP: Wavelength Routing Protocol
Wavelength Routing Protocol (WaRP) is a protocol that enables the provisioning, routing, protection, and restoration of virtual wavelength paths (VWP) through an optical network based on intelligent communication between Cisco 15900 Series Wavelength
Routers.
Standard Organization: Cisco

WCCP: Web Cache Communication Protocol
Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP), a Web-caching protocol developed by Cisco and then standardized by IETF, specifies interactions between one or more routers and one or more Web caches to establish and maintain the transparent redirection of selected types of traffic flowing through a group of routers. The selected traffic is redirected to a group of Web caches with the aim of optimizing resource usage and lowering response times.
Standard Organization: IETF/Cisco

W-CDMA: Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access
Wideband Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access(W-CDMA or WCDMA), also known as UMTS in Europe, is a 3G standard for GSM in Europe, Japan and the United States. It's also the principal alternative being discussed in Asia. It supports very high-speed multimedia services such as full-motion video, Internet access and video conferencing. It uses one 5-MHz channel for both voice and data, offering data speeds of up to 2 Mbps.
Standard Organization: ITU-T
Reference Document: IMT-2000 direct spread

WDOG: Watchdog protocol
Watchdog protocol (WDOG) provides constant validation of active workstation connections and notifies the NetWare operating system when a connection may be terminated as a result of lengthy periods without communication.
Standard Organization: Novell

WDP: Wireless Datagram Protocol
The Wireless Datagram Protocol(WDP), a protocol in WAP architecture, covers the Transmission Layer Protocols in an Internet model. As a general transport service, WDP offers to the upper layers an invisible interface independent of the underlying network technology used. In consequence of the interface common to transport protocols, the upper layer protocols of the WAP architecture can operate independent of the underlying wireless network. By letting only the transport layer deal with physical network-dependent issues, global interoperability can be acquired using mediating gateways.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum / OMA

Wellfleet BOFL: Wellfleet Breath of Life
Wellfleet Breath of Life (Wellfleet BOFL) is a proprietary header of Bay Networks (now part of Nortel) used as a line sensing protocol on Ethernet LANs to detect transmitter jams. Synchronous lines run WFLT STD protocols to determine if the line is up and Dial backup PPP lines.
Standard Organization: BAY Networks / Nortel

Wellfleet SRB: Source Routing Bridging
Wellfleet Source Routing Bridging (Wellfleet SRB) is proprietary header of Bay Networks (now part of Nortel) which passes Token Ring information over WAN lines.
Standard Organization: BAY Networks / Nortel

WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a security protocol, specified in the IEEE Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) standard, 802.11b, that is designed to provide a wireless local area network (WLAN) with a level of security and privacy comparable to what is usually expected of a wired LAN. WEP is based on a security scheme called RC4 that utilizes a combination of secret user keys and system-generated values. The original implementations of WEP supported the so-called 40-bit encryption, having a key of length 40 bits and 24 additional bits of system-generated data (64 bits total). Research has shown that 40-bit WEP encryption is too easy to decode, and consequently product vendors today employ 128-bit encryption (having a key length of 104 bits, not 128 bits) or better.
Standard Organization: IEEE
Reference Document: IEEE 802.11b

Whois
The whois protocol retrieves information about domain names from a central registry. The whois service is provided by the organizations that run the Internet. Whois is often used to retrieve registration information about an Internet domain or server. It can tell you who owns the domain, how their technical contact can be reached, along with other information.
Standard Organization: IETF
Reference Document: RFC 954

WiFi: Wireless Fidelity
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi or Wi-Fi), originally Nick named for 802.11b for wireless LAN with bandwith up to 11 Mbps, now refers to the entire wireless LAN technologies including 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n etc. Wi-Fi is actually the industry name for wireless LAN (WLAN) communication technology related to the IEEE 802.11 family of wireless networking standards.
Standard Organization: IEEE
Reference Document: IEEE 802.11

WINS: Windows Internet Name Service
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) provides a distributed database for registering and querying dynamic NetBIOS names to IP address mapping in a routed network environment. WINS supports name resolution, the automated conversion of computer names to network addresses, for Windows networks. Specifically, WINS converts NetBIOS names to IP addresses on a LAN or WAN. WINS is to NetBIOS names as what Domain Name Service (DNS) is to domain names - a central mapping of host names to network addresses.
Standard Organization: Microsoft

WiMax: Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WiMax, abreviated from Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, is a popular name of the 802.16 wireless metropolitan-area network standard, including both 802.16-2004 for fixed WiMAX and 802.16-2005 for mobile WiMAX. WiMax has a range of up to 31 miles. Data rates for WiMax can reach up to 75 Mbps (Fixed) or 15 Mbps (Mobile). A number of wireless signaling options exist ranging anywhere from the 2 GHz range up to 66 GHz. WiMax is primarily aimed at making broadband network access widely available without the expense of stringing wires (as in cable-access broadband) or the distance limitations of Digital Subscriber Line. WiMax technology can deliver high-speed Internet access to rural areas and other locations. WiMax also offers an alternative to satellite Internet services.
Standard Organization: IEEE
Reference Document: IEEE 802.16

WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
Wireless local-area networks (WLAN or wireless LAN) use radio waves to connect a user device to a LAN, which extends an existing wired local area network. WLAN provides Ethernet connections over the air and operate under the 802.11 family of specifications developed by the IEEE. WLANs are built by attaching a device called the access point (AP) to the edge of the wired network. Clients communicate with the AP using a wireless network adapter similar in function to a traditional Ethernet adapter. The WLAN technology is defined by the IEEE 802.11 family of specifications, namely, 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g and 802.11n. All use the Ethernet protocol and CSMA/CA (carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance instead of CSMA/CD) for path sharing.
Standard Organization: IEEE
Reference Document: IEEE 802.11

WML: Wireless Markup Language
Wireless Markup Language (WML), based on HTML and XML, delivers Internet content to small wireless devices, such as browser-equipped cellular phones and handheld devices, which typically have very small displays, slow CPUs, limited memory capacity, low bandwidth and restricted user-input capabilities. WML demands less memory and processing power from browsers than HTML and JavaScript. WML also includes features that tailor it for the relatively small display sizes of today's wireless devices. WML and HTML differ in significant ways. Although WML strips some features from HTML and co-opts others, WML also incorporates some powerful programming constructs not found in HTML like variables, tasks, and events. WML implements a stricter tag syntax than HTML and includes a DTD for use with XML parsers
Standard Organization: W3C

WSP: Wireless Session Protocol
The Wireless Session Protocol (WSP), a protocol in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite, provides the Wireless Application Environment a consistent interface with two services: connection-oriented service to operate above the Transaction Layer Protocol (WTP) and a connectionless service that operates above either secure or non-secure datagarm service (WDP). Currently, the protocols of the WSP family provide HTTP/1.1 functionality and semantics in a compact encoding, long lived session state with session suspend-and-resume capabilities, a common facility for reliable and unreliable data push as well as a protocol feature negotiation. These protocols are optimised to be used in low-bandwith bearer networks with relative long latency in order to connect a WAP client to a HTTP server.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum / OMA

WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
The Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) protocol, a protocol in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite, is based on Transport Layer Security (TLS) or formely known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It is designed to be used with other WAP protocols and to support narrow-band networks. It uses data encryption with a method that is negotiated at the start of the session to provide privacy, data integrity, authentication and denial-of-service protection. The latter is needed in cases when data is replayed or not properly verified. When that happens, WTLS detects the misuse and rejects the data in order to make many typical denial-of-service attacks harder to accomplish.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum / OMA

WTP: Wireless Transaction Protocol
The Wireless Transaction Protocol (WTP), a protocol in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite, operates efficiently over either secure or non-secure wireless datagram networks. It provides three different kinds of transaction services, namely unreliable one-way, reliable one-way and reliable two-way transactions. This layer also includes optional user-to-user reliability by triggering the confirmation of each received message. To reduce the number of messages sent, the feature of delaying acknowledgements can be used.
Standard Organization: WAP Forum / OMA