Look up: Gateway

1. Gateway
   The gatehouses or gateways of the Middle Ages are often large and imposing structures. They were erected over the principal entrances of the precincts of religious establishments, colleges, etc, and sometimes also of the courts of houses, as well as castles and other fortifications. In military edif...
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2. Gateway
   The Gateway is a computer which provides interfaces between the local computer system and one or several SCADA (or RCC) systems.
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3. GATEWAY
   A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. On the Internet, a node or stopping point can be either a gateway node or a host (end-point) node. Both the computers of Internet users and the computers that serve pages to users are host nodes. The computers that control tra...
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4. Gateway
   A bridge between two networks.
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5. gateway
   The computer system used in a store to transmit orders and payroll to the Office/Distribution Center and receive price changes, PPUM Tags and delivery schedules from the Office/Distribution Center.
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6. gateway
   [n] - an entrance that can be closed by a gate
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7. Gateway
   A method of interpreting differing protocols between disparate computer and telephone systems is often required. These interpretations can be performed on a gateway.
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8. Gateway
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) In the past, this referred to a routing device. Today, this refers to a special purpose device that performs a layer seven conversion of information from one protocol stack to another.
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9. Gateway
   Device that can interconnect networks with different, incompatible communications protocols. The gateway performs a layer-7 protocol-conversion to translate one set of protocols to another (for example, from TCP/IP to SNA or from TCP/IP to X.25). A gateway operates at Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers up through the Session Layer.
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10. Gateway
    a computer which links together two or more separate networks
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11. Gateway
    a facility which adapts signals and messages of one network to the protocols and conventions of another.
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12. Gateway
    A device that interconnects two communication networks and transfers messages between them by translating protocols, buffering data rates and accommodating different physical interfaces such as connectors and cables. A gateway might by used to link a network using optical fibres with a coaxial cable based system.
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13. Gateway
    A network element (node) that performs conversions between different coding and transmission formats
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14. Gateway
    Device linking dissimilar computer networks or a software protocol that allows one network to access another.
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15. Gateway
    A special dedicated computer that attaches to two or more networks and routes packets from one network to the other.
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16. gateway
    a functional unit that interconnects two computer networks with different network architectures Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a switching node that translates data formats,signalling protocols and sometimes address information in order to permit commu...
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17. Gateway
    A networking device, which links networks together. It scrutinises the data traveling between networks and may block its path for any number of reasons. In many ways similar to a hostile border guard which may decide to refuse admission to a person traveling to an adjoining country.
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18. Gateway
    A computer server that allows for the connection of different computer network using protocol conversions.
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19. Gateway
    Gate'way` noun A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
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20. gateway
    noun an entrance that can be closed by a gate
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21. Gateway
    • (n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
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22. gateway
    (from the article `information processing`) ...protocol that accommodates all the data types and formats used by the servers. Communication with other wide-area services using different ...
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23. Gateway
    A computer server that allows for the connection of different computer network using protocol conversions
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24. gateway
    A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. On the Internet, a node or stopping point can be either a gateway node or a host (end-point) node. In videoconferencing, a component (often a computer or dedicated server) that provides the protocol translation allowing H.323 ...
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25. gateway
    A node on a network that serves as an entrance to another network. For example, when a user connects to the Internet, that person essentially connects to a server that issues the Web pages to the user. These two devices are host nodes, not gateways. In enterprises, the gateway is the computer that r...
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