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Understand the names you will hear when teams build agentic systems.
MCP Gateway
An MCP gateway is an architectural layer that centralizes or controls access to multiple MCP servers.
Think of it like
Think of MCP Gateway as infrastructure glue: it does not replace the model, but helps applications connect pieces in a repeatable way.
Real life
Software frameworks such as MCP Gateway package common patterns so teams do not rebuild everything from scratch.
SRE lens
It can provide policy, authentication, logging and allowlisting for enterprise tool access.
Remember thisAn MCP gateway is an architectural layer that centralizes or controls access to multiple MCP servers.