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A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital assistants PANs can be used for communication among the personal devices themselves, or for connecting to a higher level network and the Internet where one master device takes up the role as gateway A PAN may be wireless or carried over wired interfaces such as USB A wireless personal area network (WPAN) is a PAN carried over a low-powered, short-distance wireless network technology such as IrDA, Wireless USB, Bluetooth or ZigBee
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