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Peripheral devices
Peripheral devices are printers, scanners, storage area networks (SANs), and any other peripheral device that provides resources to clients, either through a LAN or as a shared device on a network. These devices play both a passive and an active (like SAN and NAS) role in the computer network:
Figure 1.13. Storage area network (SAN)