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Client-server networks are best suited to organisations with many computers, or to situations where many computers need access to the same information. Many schools use this type of model.

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN ...