Gateway

From NENA Knowledge Base

Gateway is a piece of networking hardware used in telecommunications for telecommunications networks that allows data to flow from one discrete network to another. Gateways are distinct from routers or switches in that they communicate using more than one protocol to connect multiple networks and can operate at any of the seven layers of the open systems interconnection model (OSI).

Relevant NENA Documents
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NENA-STA-010, NENA i3 Standard for Next Generation 9-1-1

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Wikipedia definition