Consul Enterprise enables you to federate Consul datacenters together on a pairwise basis, enabling partially-connected network topologies like hub-and-spoke.
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# Consul Enterprise Advanced Federation
Consul's core federation capability uses the same gossip mechanism that is used
for a single datacenter. This requires that every server from every datacenter
be in a fully connected mesh with an open gossip port (8302/tcp and 8302/udp)
and an open server RPC port (8300/tcp). For organizations with large numbers of
datacenters, it becomes difficult to support a fully connected mesh. It is often
desirable to have topologies like hub-and-spoke with central management
datacenters and "spoke" datacenters that can't interact with each other.
[Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html) offers a [network
