Dish Network has added yet another supplier to its list of vendors for its forthcoming 5G Open RAN build-out. The latest recruit is Oracle, which will supply the technology to enable a service-based architecture (SBA) for Dish’s 5G core. The SBA is part of the 3GPP’s 5G core standards, and is essential to network slicing. It hands automated coordination of network functions so that new services can be quickly assembled from different microservices and provisioned automatically to customers. This will be the basis of many network-as-a-service offerings for enterprises, and of network slicing. Dish’s chief network officer, Marc Rouanne, said the Oracle technology would enable SBA and so allow customers “to consume software on demand” while also supporting the “advanced…