Mobile Magazine - September 2023 | Page 84

DISH NETWORK
lifecycle of software development and deployment .
“ We are starting to see a much faster lifecycle wherever we are purely cloud-native ”, says Rouanne .
“ And this is just the beginning . It ' s a journey , but the beauty is that it ' s hard for our competitors to even get there , which gives us a playground for quite a few years that we are really going to enjoy .”
Such an ambitious project could not , of course , be achieved without the right partners . Just as everything is becoming more connected in the macro technological world , the way that businesses are operating is also reflecting this trend on the micro-scale .
DISH has a number of huge names in its partner ecosystem . These include AWS ,

“ In terms of capabilities , I know that something big is coming our way ”

MARC ROUANNE EVP AND CHIEF NETWORK OFFICER , DISH WIRELESS
VMware , Samsung , Dell , Mavenir , Cisco , NOKIA , IBM , Dell , Intel and Oracle , just to name a few .
DISH interacts with these partners in the cloud , making data sharing , connection , synthesis and collaboration as easy as possible .
For Rouanne , this network of partnerships is one of DISH ’ s greatest successes .
“ From a technology perspective , this is the biggest achievement [ in networking ] we have had in the last two to three years – the creation of an ecosystem that is investing in the same vision that we have .”
“ The reason why our partners are massively investing is that they ' re convinced of what we are doing and that it ' s a game changer .”
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