Peer-to-peer network
This simple network in a small office is called a peer-to-peer network, where every computer is considered a “server,” which is a computer that can “serve” files to others. This is different from a client-server network in a large corporation, where lots of computers connect to one huge, main server and everyone gets files from that main server, rather than from each other's computers.
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