KT is establishing a data lake for South Korea’s high-speed Internet backbone test network

[Courtesy of KT]

SEOUL – South Korea’s largest telecommunications company KT has developed a data lake portal system for the Korea Advanced Research Network (KOREN), a high-speed nationwide Internet connection network specially designed to test future network technologies. The data lake portal will provide information about network faults, abnormal Internet data traffic and irregular optical signals.

A data lake is a centralized data storage area that collects structured and unstructured data generated on a network. The collected data can be further analyzed and processed to identify problems and find solutions to solve them. The data lake can be interfaced with an AI-based system for automated analysis using low-cost storage.

KOREN is South Korea’s high-speed Internet connection network used by many research institutes, organizations, and other government agencies to test and demonstrate Internet-related technologies. backbone has been applied to quantum cryptography and AI-based machine learning by other research bodies.

KT said the company has completed building a data lake portal system for KOREN. The system, which will be operational in early January 2023, will provide network engineers with various data related to network faults. The data will further be used for research and development of network management systems.

“The data lake portal system will become an AI hub that everyone can use freely, reducing the bottleneck for research and development of AI-based network technologies,” Lee Seung-ho, head of KT’s corporate communication task force, said on December 26. :