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@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@ Consul provides several key features:
 * **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can
   support any number of regions without complex configuration.
 
-* **Service Segmentation** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service
-communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
+* **Service Segmentation/Service Mesh** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service
+  communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications 
+  can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS 
+  connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all. 
 
 Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial
 version called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul)