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middlebox

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A device within a network that enforces transport policy such as a firewall or network address translation (NAT). The Middlebox Communication Architecture and Framework is the name of the IETF Working Group that is responsible for developing common interfaces to middleboxes.



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Based on the open standard Middlebox Communications (MIDCOM) protocol from IETF and supported by the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF), Veraz's Border Gateway solution takes a modular approach to border control benefiting from network wide border control policy management and specialized, multi-vendor border gateways distributed throughout a carrier's network.
 
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