Dish has chosen VMware's cloud platform to deploy its 5G O-RAN. The company said the platform will help bring to life the first network in the US to combine the efficiency of the distributed telco cloud, public cloud and private cloud environments while delivering consistent, low-latency edge computing. In addition to Dish’s selection of the VMware Telco Cloud platform, the company also contracted its cloud infrastructure services to support the IT needs of the broader Dish enterprise.
The VMware Telco Cloud will enable Dish to use software from the nation’s vendors to optimise and accelerate its 5G network deployment. In addition, it will provide Dish with enhanced automation, resiliency, security and flexibility. The VMware Telco Cloud provides an abstraction layer across multiple network domains and enables Dish to leverage hyper-scale public cloud capacity where needed, while maintaining core control points.
Dish and VMware tested and onboarded dozens of cloud-native 5G network functions from multiple software vendors on top of the VMware Telco Cloud. Running Kubernetes and following cloud-native design principles, it will enable Dish to dynamically move and scale workloads within the cloud, based on consumer demand.
