TIM signs green power deal BT starts ripping out Huawei gear A prime 5G core role for Oracle at Dish Network and a landmark green power deal for TIM top today’s news charts. Oracle has landed something of a plum 5G core functions deal at Dish Network, which is building an Open RAN-based 5G network in the US. Oracle is supplying a number of key elements for Service Based Architecture (SBA) in the 5G core, namely its containerized Policy Control Function (PCF), Network Repository Function (NRF) and Network Exposure Function (NEF) elements, plus its 5G Service Communications Proxy (SCP), Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF), Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP) and Binding Selection Function (BSF). You can find out more about these functions in this Ebook. “Oracle’s capabilities will essentially serve as the control tower of our network core, enabling our customers to consume software on demand and facilitating the advanced core functions required to power a truly automated network,” said Marc Rouanne, chief network officer at Dish Wireless. “While many carriers may claim to have 5G, there are certain attributes only possible with a cloud-based standalone network, and our working with Oracle will yield results that will unleash the power of true, fully-optimized 5G.” Dish recently announced that it will run its radio access network, 5G core and OSS/BSS functions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. For more on Oracle’s deal with Dish, see this press release.