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Consul uses a [network tomography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_tomography) |
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system to compute network coordinates for nodes in the cluster. These coordinates |
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allow the network round trip time to be estimated between any two nodes using a |
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a very simple calculation. This allows for many useful applications, such as finding |
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very simple calculation. This allows for many useful applications, such as finding |
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the service node nearest a requesting node, or failing over to services in the next |
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closest datacenter. |
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