South Korean information and communications technology (ICT) giant SK Telecom has jointly developed a new technology with US tech giant Intel that is expected to advance the 6G network era, the company announced on Thursday.
Tests conducted by SK Telecom and Intel showed that so-called inline service mesh technology reduced data transaction latency overhead by 70% and reduced gateway central processing unit (CPU) utilization by 33% on a 6G core architecture. SK Telecom said.
According to a white paper titled “Towards a 6G Architecture with Inline Service Mesh,” published on January 1, the new inline approach enables network communication between modules without proxies, resulting in: Core network traffic is processed faster and large amounts of data are processed more efficiently. 24th, 2024.
SK Telecom and Intel hope that such low-latency service meshes will further improve and usher in the 6G era sooner than expected.
AI-powered 6G core architecture
This low-latency service is expected to significantly enhance network traffic processing on the bare metal-based cloud-native 6G core architecture, which is being hailed as the next generation of AI-enabled wireless networks.
The core network is the gateway between end users and the Internet network and is designed to enable high-speed network traffic.
Bare-metal cloud native refers to advanced technologies developed to make systems lightweight by eliminating duplication of operating systems between hardware resources and virtual resources in the cloud.
Bare-metal cloud-native architecture allows you to deploy cloud-native applications in containers that run directly on bare-metal clouds, greatly simplifying network implementation.
As core networks advance, wireless networks become increasingly complex and communication within the network is delayed.
However, SK Telecom and Intel hope that newly discovered inline service mesh technology can address such slow traffic processing issues.
As 6G standards and specifications are still under development, SK Telecom and Intel will apply to 3GPP to register the new technology as 6G specifications after review, the South Korean company said.
3GPP is an international organization that produces technical specifications and technical reports for mobile phone communications technology.
For 10 years, SK Telecom and Intel have been conducting various research projects to develop important wireless communication technologies.
The latest development is part of a collaborative research effort to improve network traffic processing on the core network and cloud, incorporating advanced AI.
SK Telecom’s crosstown rivals KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. are also competing to develop 6G network technology. They are focused on developing the open LAN ecosystem that is the foundation of 6G networks.
According to the announced plan, the South Korean government has also designated 6G wireless networks, which are considered the foundation technology for generative AI, as one of the key technologies that the country must acquire and take leadership in, so South Korean telecommunications companies The three companies’ 6G efforts are expected to accelerate. The South Korean Ministry of Science, Information and Communications announced this on Wednesday.
Write destination Lee Seung Woo leeswoo@hankyung.com
Sookyung Seo edited this article.
