What are Advantages and disadvantages of gateway in networking?

ADVANTAGES OF GATEWAYS:

- Used to expand the network.

- Gateway is a server so it provides some security.

- We can connect two different types of networks.

- Protocol conversion is done.

- Effectively handles the traffic problems.

- And also establishes connections between internal network and external network.

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 DISADVANTAGES OF GATEWAY:

- Not an intelligent device. So noise prevention is not done.

- Never filter out the data

- Some what costly

- Protocol conversion is done so transmission rate is slower.

- Some what hard to handle.