A Technology to Achieve Ultra-low Latency

LG Uplus will cooperate with Google Cloud to develop mobile edge computing (MEC) applications.

LG Uplus announced on Sept. 20 that it would work with Google Cloud in the field of mobile edge computing (MEC) as a core of 5G communications.

MEC is to achieve ultra-low latency by means of a small-scale data center provided near a customer for a shorter data transmission section. In October last year, LG Uplus applied and demonstrated MEC in relation to its vehicle image transmission service for autonomous car crash prevention.

LG Uplus and Google Cloud are expected to cooperate to create MEC service ecosystems, strengthen the competitiveness of their 5G MEC solutions and work on additional applications. The MEC solutions based on their collaboration will employ 5G networks of LG Uplus. Google Cloud is planning to provide various solutions such as Kubernetes, which is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

“We are going to seek new business opportunities in 5G MEC by collaborating with Google on our excellent networks,” said LG Uplus CEO Ha Hyun-hwoi, adding, “We will develop optimum MEC and utilize it for seamless data transmission so that our 5G B2C and B2B services can be unique.”

“Our innovative collaboration with LG Uplus will lead to a variety of ways of 5G and edge computing solution utilization and business value creation in the global market as well as South Korea,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.

LG Uplus is currently seeking cooperation opportunities with multiple companies, such as cloud service providers and MEC solution providers, both at home and abroad in order to expand its proven MEC techniques from the B2B to B2C market.

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