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The many-to-one deployment topology is essentially the flipped version of the one-to-many explained in the previous section. Several source clusters replicate to a single target cluster as illustrated in the following figure. The many-to-one topology may also be referred to as a hub-and-spoke configuration. However, in this case, the target cluster is the hub, and the spokes are source clusters.