Communications Interface

Windows CE-based platforms support a variety of communications hardware and data protocols, including serial input/output (I/O) support, such as infrared transceiver support; a subset of the TAPI; and networking, which includes support for the following:

• Internet clients, including HTTP and FTP, and Internet security protocols.
• Access to remote file systems through a CIFS redirector.
• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) messaging support.
• A subset of Winsock version 1.1, including support for security protocols.
• A RAS client.
• TCP/IP and IrDA.
• NDIS for local area networking.
• PPP and SLIP for serial link and modem networking.