In the next few months Dish Networks, a firm best known for its satellite-television service, is expected to launch America’s fourth big carrier.
Dish’s network is to be the first in America that would live almost entirely in a computing cloud. Except for antennas and cables, it is mostly a cluster of code that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud-computing arm. As such, the roll-out is a test of the extent to which computing clouds will “eat” the telecoms industry.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 9.5 ms ] threadIn the next few months Dish Networks, a firm best known for its satellite-television service, is expected to launch America’s fourth big carrier.
Dish’s network is to be the first in America that would live almost entirely in a computing cloud. Except for antennas and cables, it is mostly a cluster of code that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud-computing arm. As such, the roll-out is a test of the extent to which computing clouds will “eat” the telecoms industry.