Dish Network has announced the latest addition to its long list of suppliers for its greenfield 5G network, which will be disaggregated and based on Open RAN specifications. The new partner is IBM, which will provide slicing orchestration capabilities. IBM’s automation software and services will manage all the operator’s network functions, whether they are running in the AWS cloud or elsewhere. Dish recently took the bold step of intending to run much of its RAN in the public cloud, though it will also have some functions operating on its own edge nodes. IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is to provide its Cloud Pak for Network Automation to support orchestration and automation, and enable slicing. The scope of the agreement includes…