Dish Network’s appointment of IBM as manager of its network functions, running either in the AWS cloud or its own edge servers, was widely reported last week and discussed in Wireless Watch. The interesting aspect, as we noted, is the focus on enterprise and private networks. We pointed out that this adoption of IBM’s slicing orchestration capabilities played into the operator’s bold approach of running much of its RAN in the public cloud, even though it will also have some functions operating on its own edge nodes. Perhaps boldest of all though is the attempt to tap growth in private networks, because this could be challenging for MNOs as big manufacturers, in particular, bypass them by building their own 5G…