IT InstaTunnel Team Published by our engineering team Bridging the AI Gap: Protocol-Translation Tunnels for Legacy Hardware Bridging the AI Gap: Protocol-Translation Tunnels for Legacy Hardware Your AI agent speaks MCP, but your 2015 server only speaks SOAP. Here is how “Translation Tunnels” act as a real-time interpreter, allowing modern AI to manage legacy infrastructure — without a single line of change to the underlying system. In the rapidly accelerating enterprise technology landscape of 2026, a fundamental disconnect threatens to derail digital transformation. On one side of the chasm sit state-of-the-art Large Language Models and autonomous AI agents, purpose-built to interact with external tools and resources through standardised protocols. On the other side sit mission-critical legacy systems — monolithic platforms that have reliably processed transactions, managed supply chains, and stored operational data for over a decade.…