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OCR: LANS AND WLANS 267 BLUETOOTH What is Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a short -range wireless network tech- nology that's designed to make its own connections between electronic devices without wires, cables or any direct action from user. Bluetooth networks form automatically when two or more Bluetooth devices come within range of each other Bluetooth network is sometimes called piconet To form network, Bluetooth device can search for other Bluetooth devices within range When another Bluetooth device c detected typi- cally broadcasts what it is for example printer, PC or cell phone Before data is exchanged, the owners of the two Bluetooth devices have exchange passkeys, or PINs (Figure 5-27). Once passkeys have been exchanged, the two Bluetooth devices form trusted pair. Future communi- cation bet ...