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What is an enterprise AI gateway?

An enterprise AI gateway is a specialized infrastructure layer that sits between your applications and AI model providers to route, govern, secure, and optimize every AI request across your organization. Unlike traditional API gateways, it handles token-based billing, prompt validation, compliance enforcement, semantic caching, and multi-provider failover. APERION's Smartflow provides enterprise AI gateway capabilities with zero-latency, on-premise deployment.

What is an AI firewall and how is it different from a WAF?

An AI firewall is a security layer that inspects, filters, and enforces policies on every AI request and response in real time. Unlike traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) that protect against SQL injection and XSS, AI firewalls address AI-specific threats: prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, sensitive data exfiltration through LLM prompts, and toxic AI outputs. APERION Smartflow includes AI firewall capabilities that operate inline with zero latency overhead.

What is an AI control plane for enterprise?

An AI control plane is the centralized governance layer that inventories, monitors, enforces policy on, and audits every AI system across an enterprise — including LLM interactions, AI agents, MCP tool connections, and agent-to-agent communication. Forrester recognized this as an emerging infrastructure category in December 2025. APERION's Smartflow Enterprise provides a comprehensive AI control plane with real-time enforcement rather than after-the-fact observability.

Can Smartflow be deployed on-premise?

Yes. Smartflow is designed for on-premise, private cloud, and hybrid deployment — ensuring that sensitive AI traffic, prompts, responses, and governance data never leave your network. This is critical for regulated industries operating under HIPAA, SEC, EU AI Act, and data residency requirements. Most competing solutions are cloud-only, which means your AI data passes through third-party infrastructure.