Yesterday, DISH Network Corporation announced a partnership with IBM to help automate the United States’ first greenfield cloud-native 5G network. The new, smart network will benefit enterprise customers across all industry verticals and improve DISH’s customer sales and service.
“This is a seminal moment for DISH and the global telecommunications industry,” said Steve Canepa, managing director, IBM Global Communications Sector. “By utilizing IBM’s AI-powered automation and intent-driven network orchestration software, DISH can develop and deploy network offerings, applying advanced AI with IBM Watson and orchestration capabilities to help optimize network operations and performance.”
DISH will utilize the IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation software, which provides issue resolution in an ever-learning platform, coupled with its 5G network architecture. The goal is to marry hardware and software resources to accelerate the creation and delivery of new services.
DISH also plans to use advanced network slicing to enable customers to customize its private hybrid 5G network. Enterprise customers can set service levels for each device appropriate to their use of the network. For example, low latency can support an autonomous vehicle, while an HD video camera will require high bandwidth.
“Our 5G build is unique in that we are truly creating a ‘network of networks,’ where each enterprise can custom-tailor a network slice or group of slices to achieve their specific business needs … [and] adapt over time as customer use evolves,” said Marc Rouanne, chief network officer, DISH Wireless.
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