title: Should number of applications and number of peer nodes be equal?
body: <p>I was reading the documentation of hyperledger (<a href="https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.2/network/network.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-2.2/network/network.html</a>) and I have a question from this paragraph</p>
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  <p>We can see that the careful addition of peers to the network can help support increased throughput, stability, and resilience. For example, more peers in a network will allow more applications to connect to it; and multiple peers in an organization will provide extra resilience in the case of planned or unplanned outages.</p>
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  <p>Does the sentence <code>more peers in a network will allow more applications to connect to it</code> mean that one application should be communicating with one peer node and thus number of nodes should be equal to the number of applications on the channel?</p>
  <p>If so why can't multiple applications just communicate directly to one node instead?</p>