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Contents 1 Computer Terminology 2 Companies 3 Colleges 4 Media 5 Places 5.1 Hong Kong 5.2 Singapore 5.3 South Africa 5.4 United States 5.5 Canada 6 In fiction 7 Other

Gateway has several meanings. It may often share meanings with the term gate.

[edit] Computer Terminology

• Gateway is a common term in telecommunications; see gateway (telecommunications). A gateway, in the aforementioned sense, is very popular, as it is a computer or a network that allows or controls access to another computer or network.
• Gateway is a phrase used by webmasters and search engine optimizers to describe a webpage designed to attract visitors and search engines to a particular website. A typical gateway page is small, simple and highly optimized. Its primary goal is to attract visitors searching for relevant key words or phrases, and provide hyperlinks to pages within the website.
• Gateway is also a technical term for the software interface between a web-based shopping cart (or order form) and a merchant account (See also electronic commerce and payment gateway).
• Gateway also refers to a link in computer programs. Most often attributed to viruses, a gateway acts as a portal between two programs allowing them to share information and bypass certain protocols on a host computer. Although seemingly harmless, a gateway can have tremendous negative effects on personal computers if not used properly.
• Gateway, in networking technology, is a node that serves as an entrance to another network, and vice-versa. This is, in fact, an earlier name for Routers and both actually focus on the same concept - that is, hardware or software that routes (and filters) data coming through it. This retronym, however, now describes the same hardware or software technology that are mostly implemented in corporate enterprises that not only does routing and filtering of data, but also can include added routing, proxy functionality, as well as being advanced as to have Antivirus software scanning and filtering capabilities.

[edit] Companies

• Gateway, Inc. (formerly Gateway 2000) is a computer manufacturer
• Gateway was a former name of the UK supermarket chain now rebranded as Somerfield
• Gateway was a UK building society bought in 1988 by the Woolwich Building Society.

[edit] Colleges

• Gateway Community and Technical College is composed of three separate campuses located in Northern Kentucky.

[edit] Media

• The Gateway, the student newspaper at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Gateway is the name given to the BBC intranet.

[edit] Places

[edit] Hong Kong

• A shopping centre in Hong Kong, part of the Harbour City
• The Gateway, a building in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

[edit] Singapore

• The Gateway, a twin-building office complex in Singapore.

[edit] South Africa

• Gateway Theatre of Shopping is also a cutting edge retail and leisure shopping centre in Durban, South Africa.

[edit] United States

• Gateway, Alaska
• The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri is famous as the "Gateway to the West" within the United States.
• The Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex (more commonly known as Gateway) is a stadium complex in Cleveland, Ohio, containing Jacobs Field and Gund Arena.
• Gateway International Raceway is a racetrack in Madison, Illinois
• Gateway National Recreation Area is a string of parks and beaches in New York City and New Jersey.
• The Gateway District is a large open air retail, residential and office complex in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
• Gateway Highschool is a charter school in San Francisco, California.

[edit] Canada

• Gateway Station on the Vancouver SkyTrain's Expo Line.

[edit] In fiction

• Gateway is also a name of a 1976 novel by Frederik Pohl, the first book of the Heechee series and winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award; see Gateway (novel)
• Two Gateway adventure games based on the novel have been created by Legend Entertainment.
• Gateways (novel), a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson.
• In Aliens, Gateway was the name of one of the large space station complexes in Earth orbit.
• Gateway is the name of an obscure superhero in Marvel's X-Men series; see Gateway (comics)
• Gateways are also explained as 'folds' in the pattern through which people can travel in The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.
• For the StarCraft Gateway, see Gateway (StarCraft).

[edit] Other

• Gateway is the name of a jazz trio; see Gateway (band)
• Gateway Rehabilitation Center is a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol addicts
• Gateway (1938 film) starred Don Ameche

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