Gateway

A gateway is a term that refers to the connecting of different environments or networks.^{(Feibel, 1996, p. 420)}

For the internet, it can refer to connecting what is generally a router to a separate server.^{(Feibel, 1996, p. 421)} For LANs, this can refer to any hardware or software package that connects two different network environments together.^{(Feibel, 1996, p. 420)}