DISH Network Corporation is leveraging Confluent, Inc. for cloud-native data streaming with Apache Kafka, to facilitate real-time analytics applications on DISH's new smart 5G network. DISH's network will transform how people and enterprises leverage data, lowering friction to connect systems and deliver smarter solutions. By harnessing data in motion with Confluent, DISH is creating a central network nervous system based on Kafka that connects all its customers, operations and network systems with data.

With Confluent, DISH can deploy a cloud-native data architecture that harnesses and exposes data in a scalable and elastic manner, without the headaches of having to manually manage its infrastructure. This data exposure and ecosystem allows DISH to leverage the best artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches and provide game-changing real-time intelligence to DISH and its enterprise customers. It will maximize performance, streamline dynamic behaviors, enhance the value of connectivity and enable much more than currently imaginable.

Data in motion is a key component of a modern data stack and is at the heart of DISH's data platform. With Confluent Cloud, DISH has a connected system to run data-driven processes, like maintaining real-time inventory of microservices, supporting dynamic network security and monitoring mission-critical network parameters categories, to prevent network downtime or potential data loss. The more data DISH streams, analyzes and processes across its network, the faster the data converges and produces a true intelligently automated network with unparalleled performance and reliability.

DISH is leveraging AWS' infrastructure and services to build its cloud-based 5G network. Confluent also has a relationship with AWS, which made the process of deploying Confluent Cloud on AWS for the DISH 5G network radically simplified. Through their partnership with AWS, Confluent Cloud can be accessed via AWS Private Offers Marketplace.