 one or two peers from the application’s organization are
specified, and they use [service discovery](../discovery-overview.html) to
discover the available network topology. This includes peers, orderers,
channels, deployed smart contracts and their endorsement policies. (In
production environments, a gateway configuration should specify at least two
peers for availability.)</p>
<p>The SDK will use all of the static and discovered topology information, in
conjunction with gateway connection options, to ma