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  Consul Enterprise supports increased read scalability without impacting write latency.
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# Consul Enterprise Enhanced Read Scalability

In [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/consul.html), servers can be
explicitly marked as non-voters. Non-voters will receive the replication stream
but will not take part in quorum (required by the leader before log entries can
be committed). Adding explicit non-voters will [scale
reads](/docs/guides/autopilot.html#server-read-scaling)
without impacting write latency.