In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and digital transformation, KREONET is committed to advancing as a national research network with global leadership, contributing to scientific and technological innovation and new scientific discoveries through large-scale, big data-based research.
Since its inception in 1988, KREONET has grown through various milestones, such as launching the first TCP/IP-based internet service in Korea, establishing the national grid network, leading the Global Science and Technology Collaboration Research Network Project (GLORIAD), building the Korea Lambda Exchange Node (KRLight), creating the software-converged wide-area research network (KREONET-S), and initiating quantum cryptography communication projects. Today, with a 200 Gbps research backbone, KREONET has become an essential infrastructure for cutting-edge scientific discoveries in big data-driven research.
In the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, KREONET is a core infrastructure that enables and accelerates scientific and technological innovation by utilizing AI technology based on national research data. This infrastructure has already contributed to major global scientific discoveries, including the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2013, the detection of gravitational waves in 2017, and the reconstruction of the M87 black hole image in 2019, through high-performance data transmission in collaboration with global research networks. Moving forward, KREONET will continue to play a critical role in fields such as high-energy physics, climate science, nuclear fusion, bioinformatics, next-generation radio telescopes, and the redefinition of the second.
To support these efforts, KREONET is expanding its infrastructure to achieve data transmission speeds of over 400 Gbps per single lambda, while enhancing network capabilities for its user institutions, integrating quantum cryptography services, and building a collaborative national supercomputing network. These advancements will reinforce KREONET’s position as a global leader in research networks.
In alignment with the digital transformation happening across all sectors of society, KREONET is also committed to internal innovation and the development of an agile operational and service system to swiftly adapt to changes.
KREONET has always grown together with the research network community and will continue to do so, staying in step with the needs of its users.
Buseung Cho
Director, KREONET Center