CloudNetworks (CEO Heung-gyun Jung) announced that it has signed a partnership with Kong, a global API and AI connectivity company, and will begin supplying "Kong AI Gateway" in Korea.
This is an AI gateway that integrates and manages an enterprise's AI traffic through a single gateway. This partnership was pursued to support domestic enterprises in building their AI operating systems, amid growing demand for control and governance of AI calls.
Kong is a global company that develops API and AI connectivity technology, and has provided an API management platform based on the widely used open-source Kong Gateway. Recently, it has been expanding its management scope in the API management field to include LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic, with Kong AI Gateway handling the AI traffic management portion of this.
It is designed by extending the existing API gateway concept to centrally control, secure, and observe LLM and generative AI API calls. It runs on the same runtime as Kong Gateway and manages calls to multiple LLM providers through a single standard interface.
In terms of key features, it applies the same existing API security policies—such as authentication/authorization, rate limiting, and audit logs—to AI calls as well. It also provides AI-specific features at the gateway layer, including PII removal, prompt control, semantic caching, and traffic observability, helping standardize security and policies that were previously implemented separately in each application into a common operational layer.
In a situation where enterprises must design not only model performance but also control over call paths, cost management, and audit systems together, CloudNetworks provides architecture design, implementation, integration, and technical support tailored to customer environments, along with supplying Kong AI Gateway in Korea. Through this, the company plans to link the control system at the gateway layer with existing AI operating environments and expand its AI governance portfolio.
Heung-gyun Jung, CEO of CloudNetworks, said, "As generative AI is applied to actual business operations, enterprises face a situation where they must consider not only model performance but also how to control and observe AI calls. Based on our experience building AI operating environments, CloudNetworks will supply Kong AI Gateway to support the AI governance systems of domestic enterprises."
Source: AI Times (https://www.aitimes.com)
