Middlebox

A middlebox is a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipulates traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding. Examples of middleboxes include firewalls, network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and deep packet inspection (DPI) devices.

UCLA computer science professor Lixia Zhang coined the term middlebox in 1999.

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