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.

The term middlebox was coined in 1999 by UCLA computer science professor Lixia Zhang.

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