LG Uplus said on the 12th it will push for international standardization of next-generation secure communications quality management technology that was adopted as an international standardization task at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-T.
ITU-T is an international body that sets global telecommunications technology standards.
ITU-T SG13 is a group that studies future networks and quality of service, and adopted tasks are developed into international standards through consultations among member states and member companies.
LG Uplus recently attended an ITU-T SG13 meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, and proposed the development direction for next-generation secure communications quality management technology co-developed with IoT Communication Tech.
Adopted at ITU-T in Feb., this technology aims to establish criteria to systematically manage quality of service in communications environments where next-generation security and encryption technologies such as Quantum-resistant Encryption (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) are applied. Quantum-resistant Encryption and quantum key distribution are core technologies for implementing next-generation secure communications. However, applying these technologies to networks increases latency, making it an important task to maintain quality at the level of existing communications services.
LG Uplus proposed latency-related quality management criteria that can maintain the quality level of existing communications services even in encrypted communications environments. In particular, for services sensitive to latency, such as voice calls, it presented a target latency of about 0.15 seconds (150 ms), a level at which users do not feel discomfort. It also proposed a plan to jointly manage transmission latency occurring in the network and latency arising in the encryption processing.
Kim Jong-cheol, head of wireline technology at LG Uplus, said, "In next-generation secure communications environments, not only security but also the quality perceived by customers is important," adding, "We will strengthen our technological competitiveness in the global communications market through international standard development."