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Wireless LANs - Coggle Diagram
Wireless LANs
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The devices, sometimes called gadgets, find each other and make a network called a piconet.
Bluetooth is a wireless LAN technology designed to connect devices of different functions when they are at a short distance from each other.
types of networks
Piconets
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A piconet can have up to eight stations, one of which is
called the primary; the rest are called secondaries.
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Scatternet
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This station can receive messages from the primary in the first piconet (as a secondary) and, acting as a primary, deliver them to secondaries in the second piconet. A station can be a member of two piconets.
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In some countries, including the United States, the public uses the term WiFi (short for wireless fidelity) as a synonym for wireless LAN.
IEEE has defined the specifications for a wireless LAN, called IEEE 802.11, which covers the physical and data-link layers.
WiFi, however, is a wireless LAN that is certified by the
WiFi Alliance.