MCP Gateways Emerge as Critical Infrastructure for Enterprise AI at Scale

The explosive adoption of MCP (97 million downloads by December 2025) has exposed a critical governance gap: connecting AI agents directly to dozens of servers is operationally unsustainable. MCP Gateways solve this by centralizing authentication, policy enforcement, and observability, transforming the quadratic N×M integration complexity into linear scaling. For enterprises deploying multiple agents across the organization, they're becoming essential infrastructure, not optional tooling.