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A Personal Area Network

A personal area network (PAN) allows connection between devices near an individual through either wired or wireless means. Wired PANs use connections like USB or FireWire, while wireless PANs (WPANs) use technologies like Bluetooth, Z-Wave, or ZigBee that work within about 10 meters. Bluetooth PANs, called piconets, can connect up to 8 devices to a master device and have a range of around 10 meters, though sometimes up to 100 meters. WPANs are designed to connect personal devices like computers, phones, and other electronics an individual uses.

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A Personal Area Network

A personal area network (PAN) allows connection between devices near an individual through either wired or wireless means. Wired PANs use connections like USB or FireWire, while wireless PANs (WPANs) use technologies like Bluetooth, Z-Wave, or ZigBee that work within about 10 meters. Bluetooth PANs, called piconets, can connect up to 8 devices to a master device and have a range of around 10 meters, though sometimes up to 100 meters. WPANs are designed to connect personal devices like computers, phones, and other electronics an individual uses.

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A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network used for communication among computer devices, including telephones and

personal digital assistants, in proximity to an individual's body. The devices may or may not belong to the person in question. The reach of a PAN is typically a few meters. PANs can be used for communication among the personal devices themselves (intrapersonal communication), or for connecting to a higher level network and the Internet (an uplink). Personal area networks may be wired with computer buses such as USB and FireWire. A wireless personal area network (WPAN) can also be made possible with wireless network technologies such as IrDA, Bluetooth, Wireless USB, Z-Wave and ZigBee. A Bluetooth PAN is also called a piconet, and is composed of up to 8 active devices in a masterslave relationship (a very large number of devices can be connected in "parked" mode). The first Bluetooth device in the piconet is the master, and all other devices are slaves that communicate with the master. A piconet typically has a range of 10 metres (33 ft), although ranges of up to 100 metres (330 ft) can be reached under ideal circumstances. A wireless personal area network (WPAN) is a personal area network - a network for interconnecting devices centered around an individual person's workspace - in which the connections are wireless. Typically, a wireless personal area network uses some technology that permits communication within about 10 metres (33 ft) such as Bluetooth, which was used as the basis for a new standard, IEEE 802.15. A WPAN could serve to interconnect all the ordinary computing and communicating devices that many people have on their desk or carry with them today - or it could serve a more specialized purpose such as allowing the surgeon and other team members to communicate during an operation.

Definition: A personal area network - PAN - is a computer network organized around an individual person. Personal area networks typically involve a mobile computer, a cell phone and/or a handheld computing device such as a PDA. You can use these networks to transfer files including email and calendar appointments, digital photos and music.

Connecting devices
Connecting devices allow hardware networking devices to communicate with each other. The three kinds of wireless technologies are Bluetooth, infrared, and Wireless Fidelity (WiFi). [edit] Bluetooth Bluetooth uses short-range radio waves over distances up to approximately 10 metres. For example, Bluetooth devices such as a keyboards, pointing devices, audio head sets, printers may connect to Personal digital assistants (PDAs), cell phones, or computers wirelessly. [edit] Infrared Infrared communications (IR) or IrDA (Infrared Data Association) uses infrared light, which has a frequency below the human eye's sensitivity. It is used in cell phones and TV remote controls. Typical devices include printers, keyboards, and other serial data interfaces.[1] [edit] WiFi WiFi (wireless fidelity) uses radio waves for connection over distances up to around 91 metres, usually in a local area network (LAN) environment. Wifi can be used to connect local area networks, to connect cellphones to the Internet to download music and other multimedia, to allow PC multimedia content to be stream to the TV (Wireless Multimedia Adapter), and to connect video game consoles to their networks (Nintendo WiFi Connection).

Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet Wi-Fi ( /wafa/) or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point (or hotspot) has a range of about 20 meters (65 ft) indoors and a greater range outdoors. Multiple overlapping access points can cover large areas.

WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s[1][2] with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations.[3] It is a part of a fourth generation, or 4G, of wireless-communication technology, WiMax far surpasses the 30metre (100-foot) wireless range of a conventional Wi-Fi local area network (LAN), offering a metropolitan area network with a signal radius of about 50 km (30 miles).

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