Boosting AI-powered Capabilities of Education Platform Through FS High-Performance H100 InfiniBand Networks

This Korean education company specializes in delivering an AI-powered, all-in-one digital learning platform and content tailored for teachers and corporations, serving over 1,800 institutional clients worldwide, including universities, corporations, and government ministries. Its educational training platform provides a virtualized educational training environment and customized training solutions, focusing on enhancing technical skills to facilitate its clients' digital transformation. With expansive and personalized educational content, the platform has accumulated over 1.3 million users.

As a frontrunner in South Korea for applying AI technology in educational training platforms and projects, the company has experienced notable business growth and earned high accolades from leading educational institutions and corporate partners. To sustain its competitive edge in the digital education sector, the company plans to enhance its platform's AI capabilities, allowing users to develop unique, customized teaching materials for diverse learners. Therefore, it intends to boost its AI research and development by establishing a dedicated data center, broadening its business scope and offering expanded AI educational solutions.

This South Korean education company aims to evolve into a leading AI education company. Thereby, it plans to introduce a personalized library system and enhance its educational platform with AI features, such as translation of foreign-language video and text materials, and subtitle and dubbing services. These functions require robust intelligent data analysis, surpassing the capacity of the company's current infrastructure. To deliver high-quality and reliable experiences to its large user base, the company decided to build a high-performance, low-latency 400G H100-based data center network tailored for AI applications.

However, the company lacks expertise in network construction, facing challenges in choosing between RoCE and InfiniBand network architectures. The complexity and high deployment costs of H100-based networks also pose significant challenges.

Additionally, as the business expands, the demand for timely data center construction becomes more pressing. It is essential for the company to select a supplier capable of swiftly providing necessary products, ensuring high network performance and reliability while keeping low costs.

Having partnered with FS multiple times, the company once again sought FS's dependable optical modules and cables. They soon discovered that FS has the expertise to deliver comprehensive 400G network solutions for H100 GPU clusters, backed by a solid history of successful deployments in this area.

After communicating their needs to the FS team, the company promptly received detailed emails and an invitation to video conferences. During the session, FS's technical experts offered a thorough analysis and comparison of the RoCE and InfiniBand solutions, along with a tailored H100 InfiniBand network architecture design and a detailed product list tailored to the company's requirements.

In high-performance computing, packet loss and retransmission can drastically impair performance. InfiniBand networks, leveraging RDMA technology, allow packet forwarding without CPU intervention, thus excelling at minimizing packet loss and network congestion. This perfectly aligns with the company's requirements for their new data center's network transmission.

FS's InfiniBand network solutions incorporate original NVIDIA® InfiniBand switches and high-speed modules, ensuring reliability and performance optimized for AI and HPC applications while reducing costs. FS NVIDIA® MQM9790-NS2F and MQM9700-NS2F switches, built on the NVIDIA Quantum -2 switch ASIC, are 32 x 800G OSFP InfiniBand switches that provide an aggregate switch throughput of 51.2 Tb/s and over 66.5 Billion packets per second (BPPS) capacity. FS transceivers passed various tests such as performance, scenario, and bit error rate (BER) testing, ensuring stable data transmission. Its OSFP-SR8-800G and OSFP-SR4-400G-FL are 100% verified by the original, and fully compatible with NVIDIA QM9700/9790 switches and ConnectX-7 adapters respectively.

The company was pleased with FS's analysis of the H100 network solution, as well as the customized architectural design and product lists. Due to its demand for high-bandwidth and low-latency data transmission, the company ultimately chose FS's 400G H100 InfiniBand network solution.

The educational company was impressed with the FS 400G network solution's connectivity performance and reliability. They were particularly excited about FS's ability to offer a complete set of InfiniBand network solution products. Moreover, FS's InfiniBand switches obtained KC EMC certification, meeting South Korea's product safety requirements, significantly reducing their procurement time and accelerating the project timeline.

By partnering with FS, the company can swiftly build an AI-optimized InfiniBand network, speeding up AI applications and features development, and attracting more users.

The educational company acquired a professional 400G network solution for the H100 GPU clusters and highly reliable products, fulfilling its AI data center construction needs. Additionally, leveraging FS's highly competitive pricing, the company gained substantial cost advantages, reducing network construction costs by over 35%.

In terms of technical service, the company not only receives free professional technical support but also gains abundant technical documentation, online training services, and instructional videos from the FS team. These resources have significantly reduced training costs while greatly enhancing operational reliability and efficiency. Moreover, due to FS's ample product supply, the company could quickly proceed with the solution deployment, significantly reducing project risks.

The company's CIO remarked, "FS's engineer is very experienced in InfiniBand projects, and the account manager is highly professional, providing comprehensive pre-sales and after-sales services. They tracked the delivery status of my order throughout the entire process, and the delivery speed was much faster than I expected."

Armed with a reliable and high-quality network solution, this educational company is now more confident in utilizing its extensive educational data and advanced AI capabilities to enhance the user experience, positioning itself as the leader in South Korea's B2B technology education platform sector.