ALSO CALLED: NAT DEFINITION: NAT (Network Address Translation or Network Address Translator) is the translation of an Internet Protocol address (IP address) used within one network to a different IP address known within another network. One network is designated the inside network and the other is the outside.
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NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION DEFINITION (continued): … Typically, a company maps its local inside network addresses to one or more global outside IP addresses and unmaps the global IP addresses on incoming packets back into local IP addresses. This helps ensure security since each outgoing or incoming request must go through a translation process that also offers the opportunity to qualify or authenticate the request or match it to a previous request. NAT also conserves on the number of global IP addresses that a company needs and it lets the company … Network Address Translation definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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