LGU+ IPTV Platform Wins Ministerial Award at 'ICT Awards Korea'

LG Uplus announced on the 22nd that its IPTV (U+tv) platform, which applied cloud-based 'Microservices Architecture (MSA)' technology, won the 'Minister of Science and ICT Award,' the grand prize in the Digital Insight category at the ‘ICT Award Korea 2023’.

MSA is a design technology that operates a platform by dividing a single service into small units of applications. Because it is divided into small units with clear modification scopes, it enables rapid development without service interruption when modifying programs for performance improvement or adding functions, and it minimizes the scope of failure when problems occur. LG Uplus applied this technology to the IPTV platform for the first time in the industry in collaboration with cloud digital platform company Megazone.

Oh Hyung-seok, PM of LG Uplus IPTV MSA Transition TF, is seen taking a commemorative photo after receiving the Minister of Science and ICT Award, the grand prize in the Digital Insight category, at the 'ICT Award 2023' ceremony held on the 18th at The-K Hotel Seoul Convention Center in Seocho-gu.
[Photo by LG Uplus]

In the case of broadcasting platforms, the complexity of work increases due to the diversity of content combining vast video data and real-time broadcasting, making MSA transition one of the most challenging fields. LG Uplus and Megazone jointly submitted the ‘U+tv MSA Transition Project’ to ICT Award Korea and received high evaluations in content scalability, ease of information structure, and reliability of data and information, winning the grand prize in the Digital Insight category.

The two companies started the project in May 2021 and gradually transitioned over about two years through more than 20 phases, successfully completing it in April this year. Leveraging the characteristics of MSA technology, LG Uplus explained that instead of a batch transition method that suspends services for several hours to perform a large-scale transition at once, they adopted a sequential transition method without service interruption to minimize customer inconvenience.

With the introduction of MSA technology, U+tv has significantly improved user quality, including ▲7 times faster development speed ▲rapid resolution of customer quality complaints within 1-2 days ▲capability and environment to deploy applications hundreds of times a day ▲cloud infrastructure setup within 1-2 hours ▲prevention of quality degradation due to massive access.

Meanwhile, the ICT Award Korea, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is the largest ICT award in Korea, hosted by the Korea Information Science Promotion Association and sponsored by the Ministry of Science and ICT. Among 182 services submitted in six categories, 57 were honored with awards.

Lee Sang-yeop, CTO (Executive Vice President) of LG Uplus, said, “It is very meaningful that the IPTV platform MSA transition project to enhance customers’ IPTV viewing quality was recognized by winning the Minister’s Award at the largest ICT award in Korea,” adding, “We plan to expand the application of MSA technology to various services where it is suitable and innovate the quality of services across the company.”

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