Three growing trends have signaled the need for a new communications software infrastructure:

• The proliferation of digital content and services available in the network
• The increasing variety of devices, beyond the PC, for accessing and interacting with network content and services
• The wide variety of wireless and wired options for connecting devices to each other and to the network

Enabling network applications is no longer as simple as adding a TCP/IP stack. Network applications must address the above trends or risk becoming obsolete. Doing so requires providing a framework that is dynamic enough to adapt to changing networks, media types and device types at runtime; distributed so as to leverage services within the network and at the edge of the network; and efficient enough to run on resource-constrained devices and network servers alike. Without the appropriate platform OEMs and ISVs hoping to build innovative applications and products have been bogged down with complex software infrastructure issues --until now...

Strings provides OEMS and ISVs with software infrastructure that significantly reduces the cost of building, deploying and maintaining network applications. By leveraging Strings as the basis for their applications, OEMs and ISVs can finally deliver cost effective applications both in the network and on the devices that access the network.