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title: Data Plane
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The data plane is the part of the mesh that directly controls communication between workload instances.
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Istio's data plane uses intelligent [Envoy](/docs/reference/glossary/#envoy) proxies deployed as sidecars to mediate and control all
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traffic that your mesh services send and receive.
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