Korea Open Lightpath Exchange

1.Introduction

The KRLight is the Asia-pacific lightpath hub that makes Science Data Super-Highway liking between Asia and North America based on Daejeon (in KISTI), South Korea. KRLight is a distributed Tier1 GOLE (GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange) based on Daejeon, Hong Kong, Seattle, Chicago and Amsterdam. It means KRLight provides fast international connection to Korea, China, United States, SURFnet, and so on. KRLight, operated by KISTI, was initiated by GLORIAD project since 2005.

2. KRLight Infrastructure

• 5 PoPs
  • Daejeon :
  • Chicago :
  • Seattle :
  • Amsterdam :
  • Hong Kong :

• International Network Connection
  • Daejeon - Chicago : 100Gbps + 10Gbps
  • Daejeon - Seattle : 100Gbps + 2.5Gbps
  • Seattle - Chicago : 10Gbps
  • Chicago - Amsterdam :  10Gbps + 10Gbps
  • Daejeon - Hong Kong : 10Gbps + 10Gbps

3. KRLight Service

• International Lightpath Connection
• LHCONE enabled
• 10Gbps LHCOPN connection between Daejeon and CERN

4. KRLight Operational Data

• Round-trip Time

5. other GOLEs

• NetherLight/Amsterdam

5. Contact

Buseung Cho, +82-42-869-0584, bscho@kisti.re.kr