GPRS is the full name of "Universal Packet Radio Service", is in the existing GSM network opened a new packet data transmission service, in the GPRS hosting business support of the standardized network protocol, GPRS can provide a series of interactive business:
Point-to-Point connection-oriented data service-a business that sends multiple groupings between two users or multiple users, which requires work processes such as establishing connections, data transfer, and connection release.
Single point to multi-point business-the business can transmit a single message to multiple users according to the requirements of a business requester. This business can be divided into point-to-point multicast service, point-to-point multicast service and IP Multicast service.
Point-to-Point connectionless Network Service-each data grouping of the business is independent of each other, the information transmission between users does not need the End-to-end call establishment program, the packet transmission is not logically connected, the packet delivery is not confirmed, and is supported by the IP protocol. (Computer science)
GPRS in addition to providing point-to-point, point-to-point data services, but also to support the user terminal business, supplementary services, GSM short message services and a variety of GPRS telecommunications business.