Middlebox

A middlebox is a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipulates traffic for purposes other than packet forwarding.[1] Examples of middleboxes include firewalls, network address translators (NATs), load balancers, and deep packet inspection (DPI) devices.[2]

The term middlebox was coined in 1999 by UCLA computer science professor Lixia Zhang.[1][3]

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  2. ^ Shan Huang; Steve Uhlig; Félix Cuadrado (2017). "Middleboxes in the Internet: A HTTP perspective". 2017 Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). pp. 1–9. doi:10.23919/TMA.2017.8002906. ISBN 978-3-901882-95-1. S2CID 34925433.
  3. ^ Kromhout, Wileen Wong (February 2, 2012), "Lixia Zhang named to UCLA's Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Science", UCLA Newsroom, archived from the original on April 25, 2019, retrieved 2015-06-14