Gateway

The term "gateway" comes from computer science or information and communication technology and is a kind of intermediary. It mediates between different protocols used by two systems. Gateways make it possible for two systems to communicate with each other even though they are not necessarily compatible with each other. For example, computers, networks, or programs installed on the computers are considered as a system. Gateways are used to establish communication among IP devices that can only communicate with each other via older radio protocols. Gateways convert the incoming data into the correspondingly required target data.