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When chef Clay Conley began re-envisioning the menu at Grato, his popular West Palm Beach restaurant, from a strictly Italian concept to a rotating collection of chef-driven, multi-cuisine dishes, he knew he wanted to include more plant-based fare. Having read Dr.
Michael Greger’s book, How Not to Die, and embraced a more vegan diet himself, Conley wanted to give Grato patrons—as well as those dining at his Palm Beach eatery, Buccan—healthier, more sustainable options. One such example is Grato’s grilled asparagus crostini. Here, Conley shares insight into the flavors, ingredients, and techniques behind the dish.
Inspiration: “With this dish, it is the great texture and color of the vegetable. I wanted to showcase the bright green asparagus that is bountiful in the spring and summer. Regardless of the seasonal vegetable, my approach to a crostini has usually been the same. It starts with a thick piece of wood-grilled bread, followed by a smear of something creamy. In this case, it’s vegan ricotta. I then top it with the vegetable tossed in a bright vinaigrette.”
Why It Works: “It’s important to me to have a layering of different flavors and varying temperatures and textures in the same dish. The creamy component in the cheese is an important one—it rounds out the mouthfeel and provides that umami flavor that is normally delivered by cheese. The creaminess here is achieved by pureeing soaked cashews with toasted garlic and shallot, vinegar, mushroom powder, and nutritional yeast.”
Dish is doing something that hasn't been done in decades, and some things that have never been done before. We took an exclusive trip to three new Dish "Project Genesis" cities to see how the company is building the first new nationwide cell phone network in decades.
Under the gimlet eye of the FCC, the former satellite-TV company is the first new nationwide carrier in the US this century. It's doing this with odds and ends of spectrum and using a flexible, mix-and-match network setup that no one outside Japan has pulled off before.
Dish was required to launch its service covering 20% of the US population by June 14, and at the end of that day, it started selling its "Project Genesis" in more than 120 cities. So we hopped on a bus to hit three of them—Ithaca, Syracuse, and Utica in New York—with a retail Samsung Galaxy S22 we purchased from Dish.
For now, Dish has one phone—a $399.99 Galaxy S22—and one service plan, a $30 "unlimited everything" plan. The carrier also sells a hotspot, the Netgear Nighthawk M6, with a $20 plan.
These smaller cities show Dish's unusual focus, and the true potential for what it can add to the US wireless landscape. Smaller cities don't often get new technologies first, but Dish is putting places like Ithaca (pop. 32,000) and Utica (pop. 60,000) front and center.
Dish currently only offers Project Genesis on a specially kitted-out, small Samsung Galaxy S22, which it's essentially selling for half price. Dish told me that it chose the S22 because it's a popular, high-end device. It's also the first phone that supports 3.45GHz airwaves(Opens in a new window), of which Dish owns a bunch although it hasn't started broadcasting on them yet.
When you get the Dish S22, the first thing that starts up is the Project Genesis app. It’s basically a feedback app, giving you little gamified tasks for points and free accessories. But what it really wants you to do is use the network a lot and provide feedback. All your Project Genesis data goes back into Dish's network build, directing the company on how to build and fix its network.
The gamified Project Genesis app
If this sounds like a beta, it feels like a beta, too. Legally, Dish is required to "offer service" to 20% of the US population, and it does, but as you'll see, the service is...pretty rocky.
You can't just put your Dish SIM into another phone because there is some weird firmware stuff going on here. Somehow, the phone is using both its physical SIM and its secondary eSIM in tandem. In the phone's settings, Dish shows up as your single, primary SIM. But if you go into Samsung's field test mode, there's what appears to be an AT&T eSIM in slot 1, and the Dish physical SIM in slot 2. They're linked somehow through software.
Yes, there's someone on Reddit who put their Dish SIM into an iPhone(Opens in a new window), but I'm pretty sure it just becomes an AT&T SIM in that case, as he reports that it doesn't have standalone 5G, which is a major point of the Dish network.
Dish says it will have more phones available later this year. (It has to, because of what I uncovered about performance!)
When I wasn't on Dish, I was on AT&T, and I was on AT&T much of the time.
The phone doesn't indicate what network you're on in the status bar, but if it's anything but standalone 5G, it's AT&T. (Dish has the nation's first pure standalone 5G network.) When I made a phone call, it was always on AT&T. But here's a hot take: That’s not bad. AT&T has a reliable network with great coverage in Upstate New York.
On the maps below, orange is Dish coverage and blue is AT&T.
Utica, NY
The best Dish coverage I saw was in Utica. It isn't citywide, but Dish covers significant parts of the city with what appears to be multiple sites appropriately handing off to each other.
You see some blue overlapping with orange near the downtown area. That's from two different time periods, sometimes just an hour apart. In Ithaca and Syracuse, I had a lot of trouble getting data sessions to start on the Dish network and the phone would often time out, fall down to 4G, or show “no data connection.” That was less common in Utica.
Ithaca, NY
In Ithaca, I connected to what felt like three cell sites: at Ithaca College, on the Cornell campus north of the creek, and in suburban Dryden (east of the map area above). In all the rest of Ithaca—Collegetown, downtown, in the shopping area southwest of downtown—I was on AT&T.
The phone often had trouble making connections on the Dish network in Ithaca, sometimes stalling and dropping back to AT&T, but I got some web page loads and speed tests done. Speeds were incredibly slow at 1-5Mbps down, and less than 1Mbps up.
Syracuse, NY
I had only an hour to walk around Syracuse. I found two cell sites: one just north of Syracuse University and one south of the city. In downtown, Westcott, and the Near Eastside neighborhoods, as well as up by the train station, I was on AT&T.
I don't think Dish is trying to pull a fast one on the FCC, but I think it came up against a legal deadline it had to meet, no matter what shape the network was in. And it's in very early shape.
Dish has a big problem in Upstate New York right now, and it's the number 5.
The problem isn't the G, it's the MHz. Everywhere I went, the Dish network was using only 5MHz of band n71, alone. That's "4G network in 2012" levels of spectrum usage, and yep, it has about the performance of a 4G network in 2012.
Getting maps on the Transit app doesn't take much bandwidth
The network did better in Utica than in Ithaca and Syracuse. Many times I tried to run a test or browse a web page while on Dish's native network in the latter two cities, my browser would give me a "no Internet" error or the phone would fall back to AT&T.
I could make and receive phone calls while in a “coverage but no data” state, because voice calling was going over AT&T even while the Dish network data connection was having trouble.
Data performance on AT&T was much faster than Dish's native network, but with really long latencies. I got up to 217Mbps down, but latencies regularly reached the 300-400ms range. That felt like a bug (and might have had to do with the speed test app I was using). On Dish's network, speed test latencies ranged from 69ms to an eye-popping 839ms.
Compared to a native AT&T phone in an AT&T-but-not-Dish coverage area using a speed test app, the two devices had almost the exact same speeds (120Mbps down, 37-41Mbps up), but the Dish device had much longer latencies (200-350ms compared to 30-40ms on the AT&T device).
In Utica, I was getting 18Mbps down and 2Mbps up on Dish's network and I was able to:
Check maps and bus times in Google Maps and the Transit app
Send video and audio texts in Google Messages
Download a PDF menu from a restaurant website
Listen to "Don't Stop Believin'" streaming on YouTube Music (because I don't)
I did not, in fact, stop believin'. This is music streaming on Dish in Utica
You don't need a lot of speed for most of the things you do online. Dish's bigger problem is potential congestion: 5MHz will get almost unusably congested very quickly if a lot of people sign up for this service. Of course, Dish can shove excess customers onto AT&T's network, but that seems to defeat the point of this exercise.
Dish owns more than 100MHz of airwaves in Upstate New York, but right now it can't use them. According to Spectrum Omega(Opens in a new window), Dish owns:
6MHz of band n29 (no phones support this)
40MHz of band n70(Opens in a new window) (no phones support this)
20MHz of downlink-only n66 (not sure why they aren't using this, but I didn't see it)
40MHz of n77 at 3.45GHz (the S22 supports this, but base stations don't yet)
A bunch of complicated licenses at 3.5-3.65GHz
So in total that's like 20 times the spectrum my phone was using on Project Genesis. This makes it absolutely critical for Dish to get phone makers to support its n29 and n70 bands, because otherwise, none of this is going to work when there's more than a handful of people on the system.
The FCC approved two Motorola phones with band n70 back in March, but those phones haven't yet appeared on the market with that band.
Dish's situation isn't as tough in some of its other markets. In its showcase market of Las Vegas, it has double the n71 I saw—10MHz—as well as some working n66, which means much smoother performance than a 5MHz sliver alone. But Dish had to show 20% population coverage for the FCC, so some of that's going to be the sliver.
The ‘N600’ on the screen here shows that Dish is operating in band n71
For its 3.45GHz, support will probably appear later this year as the base station equipment becomes available. AT&T is heavily invested in making 3.45GHz work, and that band should work on a Galaxy S22 without problems. That would be a huge improvement in performance for Dish.
Curiously, in Syracuse but not the other two cities I tested, Dish owns an extra 10MHz of usable n66. There's no hardware reason I can think of why that wouldn't be usable, but I checked, and it wasn't being used.
Although Dish is offering it publicly to everyone, its Project Genesis network, the way it is now, is clearly an extended beta. You're asked to give input to help improve the network.
Some PCMag readers will say "heck yeah." I mean, a $30 unlimited plan on AT&T undercuts both AT&T and Cricket plans in a big way. But there's some peril in that.
The fastest speed test I got on the Dish network in Utica
When you're near a Dish tower, you're going to be on Dish. Until we get phones and equipment that support n29, n70, and 3.45GHz, that may be very slow and even buggy performance in places like Upstate New York.
I also received a ton of spam calls on the new Dish phone. I don't know whether that's just because the number was recycled, or whether Dish doesn't have the level of spam filtering other carriers have put in place.
This is very, very much just the beginning for this new network. At an investor conference in May, Dish EVP of Retail Wireless Stephen Stokols said the company would launch a brand called "Boost Infinite" this fall. I think that's going to be the real retail launch for Dish's network, and it’ll have worked out a lot of the bugs by then.
Hopefully, by the fall, there will be 3.45GHz base station equipment (AT&T wants it, badly), phones that support n29 and n70, and a much better-debugged network. "Project Genesis" is only being sold online, largely to people in the know; Boost Infinite, presumably, will be sold through Boost stores nationwide.
Dish made its FCC deadline. Now it's facing another tough deadline: it needs to cover 70% of the US population(Opens in a new window) by June 14, 2023. The network is going to grow, and it's going to grow fast. Hopefully, by the end of 2022 it'll be time for more people to jump on board.
Chicken riggies, the culinary specialty of Utica. This was made with penne, though, because I have celiac and that was the place's gluten-free pasta
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Dish's plan to use 12GHz radio spectrum for its 5G network could drastically affect the Starlink satellite internet network, SpaceX said in a letter to the FCC. "If Dish’s lobbying efforts succeed, our study shows that Starlink customers will experience harmful interference more than 77 percent of the time and total outage of service 74 percent of the time, rendering Starlink unusable for most Americans," wrote SpaceX senior director David Goldman.
Dish has asked the FCC to allow it to use the 12Ghz band for a terrestrial 5G network, despite potential satellite interference with Starlink and other services, including its own Dish Network. Dish and its allies in the 5Gfor12GHz coalition recently published research saying that doing so would be "highly feasible" and that Starlink and similar services "will experience zero harmful interference with 5G."
However, SpaceX called the analysis "faulty" and told the FCC that "no reasonable engineer" would believe the studies. "SpaceX urges the Commission to investigate whether Dish and [Dell-owned] RS Access filed intentionally misleading reports," it said. The Elon Musk-owned company also pointed out that the studies don't align with Dish's own filings from December 2019 that "concurrent sharing of spectrum... is not viable in the 12 GHz band."
Dish said that its "expert engineers are evaluating SpaceX's claims in the filing," in a statement to CNN Business, but there's no comment yet from the FCC. Previously, FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel called the case "one of the most complex dockets we have... it's going to take a lot of technical work to make sure that the airwaves can accommodate all those different uses without harmful interference."
Spectrum battles have been waged frequently over the last several years, with one of the most recent being over potential 5G interference with aviation usage. Recent studies have found that countries exploiting spectrum have significantly expanded their economies compared to other nations.
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If you've never had Korean-style potato salad, you're seriously missing out. Known as gamja saelleodeu, Thrillist explains the creamy, flavorful side is a type of banchan (or little side dishes) that commonly accompany Korean barbecue. In our book, all Korean BBQ sides make an excellent addition to any cookout, and this one's pretty simple to make so it's perfect for those inexperienced with the cuisine.
Our Korean potato salad recipe is made by boiling potatoes, passing them through a ricer, and then adding boiled carrot coins, chopped cucumbers, chopped hard-boiled eggs, and minced red onion. Everything is mixed with apple cider vinegar and mayonnaise for a perfectly creamy, slightly tart side. For bonus presentation points, serve the potato salad with an ice cream scoop and top with a showering of grated hard-boiled egg yolk.
Recipe: Korean Potato Salad
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Dish, T-Mobile agree to new terms of master network agreement FierceWirelessLITTLETON, Colo. and BELLEVUE, Wash., June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DISH Network (NASDAQ:DISH) and T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) signed an amendment to the 2020 Master Network Services Agreement (MNSA) that provides customers of DISH's retail wireless brands, including Boost Mobile, access to T-Mobile's nationwide 5G network.
The amendment, which will become effective upon approval by the United States Department of Justice, incorporates financial and operational changes, including improved pricing and enhanced roaming solutions for DISH 5G customers in consideration of an annual minimum revenue commitment through the remaining term of the MNSA.
"We are pleased to have reached new terms with T-Mobile that provide DISH with the ability to be more competitive and to meet our customers' evolving needs," said John Swieringa, president and COO, DISH Wireless. "DISH's 5G network now covers more than 20 percent of the U.S. population, and this amendment gives our customers enhanced access to nationwide coverage and in-market roaming while we continue to deploy our own 5G network."
"T-Mobile is building a national, Ultra Capacity 5G network with unprecedented capacity, which has put us in a unique position to support partners like DISH," said Mike Katz, chief marketing officer, T-Mobile. "While DISH customers will benefit from our network, this deal also locks in a multi-billion dollar revenue commitment for our business. It's a win-win."
DISH is committed to providing competition in the wireless market as the nation's fourth facilities-based carrier and the company will continue to expand coverage of DISH's 5G network.
The Term Sheet will not be effective unless it is approved by the DOJ by August 14, 2022.
About DISH Network:
DISH Network Corporation is a connectivity company. Since 1980, it has served as a disruptive force, driving innovation and value on behalf of consumers. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides television entertainment and award-winning technology to millions of customers with its satellite DISH TV and streaming SLING TV services. In 2020, the company became a nationwide U.S. wireless carrier through the acquisition of Boost Mobile. DISH continues to innovate in wireless, building the nation's first virtualized, O-RAN 5G broadband network. DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) is a Fortune 200 company.
About T Mobile:
T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) is America's supercharged Un-carrier, delivering an advanced 5G LTE and transformative nationwide 5G network that will offer reliable connectivity for all. T-Mobile's customers benefit from its unmatched combination of value and quality, unwavering obsession with offering them the best possible service experience and undisputable drive for disruption that create competition and innovation in wireless and beyond. Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile provides services through its subsidiaries and operates its flagship brands, T-Mobile, Metro by T-Mobile and Sprint. For more information please visit: https://www.t-mobile.com.
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WASHINGTON — Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday ramped up a battle over broadband regulations with Dish Network and an affiliate of billionaire Michael Dell, calling for the FCC to address lingering disputes over broadband use that could interfere with its Starlink satellite internet network.
At the heart of the dispute is use of the 12-gigahertz band, a range of frequency used for broadband communications, and the frequency's ability to support both ground-based and space-based services.
In January 2021, the Federal Communications Commission issued a notice asking for comment on how to best use the 12-gigahertz band. Dish and RS Access, funded by Dell's investment firm, published studies arguing that ground-based 5G networks could share the frequency with low Earth orbit satellite networks, such as Starlink or OneWeb.
SpaceX filed its analysis of the Dish and RS Access studies on Tuesday, claiming it needed to correct what it called "some of the most egregious assumptions" in the reports, arguing Starlink users would see interference to the point of causing service outages for customers "74% of the time."
Musk's company called on the FCC "to investigate whether DISH and RS Access filed intentionally misleading reports," noting that the studies did not match findings from Dish two years earlier that called sharing usage "not viable."
A Dish spokesperson told CNBC that the company's "expert engineers are evaluating SpaceX's claims in the filing."
SpaceX isn't alone in opposing a potential expansion of 12-gigahertz use. Telecom companies, such as AT&T, tech giants Google and Microsoft, as well as satellite network operators such as Intelsat, OneWeb and SES, all filed comments with the federal agency opposing the change.
Senior SpaceX representatives told CNBC the company hopes its analysis will persuade the FCC to see that a decision in favor of Dish and RS Access poses what amounts to an existential threat to the company's Starlink network.
"Leaving the proceeding open any longer simply cannot be justified for policy or technical reasons. Over the six years the Commission has let this proceeding fester, satellite operators have been forced to spend countless hours of engineering time responding to frivolous arguments by DISH and RS Access," SpaceX senior director of satellite policy David Goldman wrote in a letter to the FCC on Tuesday.
SpaceX has launched about 2,700 Starlink satellites into orbit to date, with nearly 500,000 users and its manufacturing line is producing about 30,000 satellite dishes per week.
The FCC declined CNBC's request for comment on when it expects to issue a decision on the 12-gigahertz band.
Dish and RS Access lead a coalition of companies that hold terrestrial FCC licenses in the 12-gigahertz band, with the pair of entities representing the two largest holders in that spectrum range. While Dish is most commonly known for providing satellite television services, the company has acquired broad swaths of spectrum.
For years, Dish has contended that it would make use of its valuable spectrum rights. Recently, with an FCC deadline looming, Dish rolled out its "Project Genesis" network of 5G service, which the company says fulfilled a government requirement to offer service to over 20% of the U.S. population. Whether Dish's network actually achieves that threshold is a matter of dispute, according to The Verge's testing of the service.
"DISH has never lived up to its repeated promises to deploy a new terrestrial network using the exclusive licenses already stored up in its warehouses — the Commission simply cannot gift more spectrum to any operator with this track record of broken promises and stranded consumers," Goldman wrote in SpaceX's letter to the FCC.
Dish did not immediately comment on the Project Genesis network in response to CNBC.
Dish has faced FCC repercussions over spectrum rights before. In an unrelated ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday, a federal judge upheld an FCC determination that Dish held "de facto control" over two other companies, Bloomberg reported. The arrangement violated spectrum auction rules by acquiring $3.3 billion in bidding credits that were intended for small businesses, according to the report.
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Many Walt Disney World restaurants have increased the price of their standard sides, including french fries, by 50%.
Many sides have recently gone from $2.99 to $4.49. This is noticeable at quick-service restaurants that offer separate sides. French fries used to be $2.99 but are now $4.49.
We’ve seen frequent price increases at both quick-service and table-service restaurants recently. In January of this year, prices went up at almost every food and beverage location at Walt Disney World Resort.
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Dish Network has filed an official petition asking the FCC to make SpaceX deactivate Starlink setups for customers who have been using their satellite dishes on moving vehicles. Starlink recently introduced a Portability feature that allows customers to temporarily relocate their Starlink hardware to a new location, as well as a service specifically for RV drivers.
Neither official Starlink feature allows the company’s satellite dishes to be used while a car, camper, or boat is actually in motion, though. SpaceX specifically notes in its product notes that customers must stop a trip and complete setup before connecting to their Starlink service.
The executives over at Dish — a prime Starlink competitor — are online enough to know Starlink customers are using their satellite internet in moving vehicles in spite of this guidance. And, given that Starlink doesn’t have the necessary permissions from the FCC for its devices to operate while moving, Dish says SpaceX’s allowance of such activities is essentially illegal.
The rivalry wages on — Dish is essentially asking SpaceX to confirm whether or not it can tell when customers are accessing their satellites while in motion. If it can, Dish says it’s the company’s imperative to deactivate those customers’ accounts — and if it can’t, Dish says the FCC should do so.
Dish’s letter is brimming with thinly veiled hate for basically everything SpaceX stands for. It’s clear from even a quick scan that this isn’t just about moving Starlink setups.
“Dish Network Corporation wrote to Starlink on May 27, 2022 … SpaceX finally deigned to respond on June 8, 12 days after Dish’s letter,” the company writes. “The response still does not answer any of Dish’s questions about SpaceX’s practices. Instead, it brims with incredible claims, outright inaccuracies, and tacit admissions, including a near-frivolous attempt to justify its actions based on the tragic war in Ukraine.”
SpaceX is firing right back with ammo of its own. The company filed its own letter with the FCC last week in which it calls Dish’s complaints “feeble publicity stunts.” Other highlights of the letter: calling Dish’s citation of tweets from Elon Musk and SpaceX “fanciful” and saying Dish has a “low opinion of American consumers.”
Elon, again — Both SpaceX and Dish make some good points in their respective FCC letters.
Some of the tweets Dish points to are really weak evidence that SpaceX is actually encouraging customers to use their service while in motion. Language like “any location” or “wherever” — which constitutes most of the evidence compiled in Dish’s latest letter — doesn’t exactly equate to telling your customers to use the service while driving a boat.
But some of the tweets Dish points out speak more explicitly about Starlink working while in motion. Interestingly enough, all of those tweets were sent by Elon Musk. The Starlink and SpaceX accounts never tell customers that in-motion use works — it’s always trusty Musky doing the encouraging here.
SpaceX’s June 8 letter to the FCC asks the Commission to consider accelerating the application it’s submitted to officially allow Starlink use in moving vehicles. If the FCC does so, Dish’s arguments will essentially turn void. It certainly won’t stop Musk from sending speculative tweets with real-world consequences, though.
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As EVP and CIO for American television provider DISH, Atilla Tinic leads IT strategy, delivery and operations for all of the company’s pay-TV and wireless brands—from the 25-year-old direct-broadcast satellite service DISH Network to the born-in-the-cloud IPTV service Sling TV and smart home service OnTech.
Now several years into the cloud journey, each of DISH’s businesses “is on a little bit of their own trajectory, when it comes to infrastructure and the cloud,” says Tinic. But the emphasis is on a cloud-first approach because, as he puts it, “all new technologies are being born in the cloud.”
CIO Contributing Editor Julia King sat down with Tinic at CIO’s recent Future of Cloud Summit to discuss innovation in the cloud, the importance of having a cloud mindset, staffing challenges, and lessons he learned along the way.
What follows are edited excerpts of that conversation. For more insights, watch the video of the event session embedded below.
On innovating in the cloud:
Making sure that we are keeping up [with the pace of technology change] is highly critical to me. But I do think the key is the cloud. And why I say that is all new technologies are being born in the cloud. And I would say all traditional commercial software vendors are trying to find their way to modernize their platform so they can be cloud native.
So it goes without saying that all our technology evaluations are happening there, which, by the way, is great, because we can evaluate capabilities quickly. We can typically do rapid assessments or spin up a sandbox environment to evaluate capabilities. So it puts us in a position where we can try it before we buy it and really learn about the platforms and kind of see what makes sense for us.
And I think this is critical because if you think about the rapid change of technology,… I do not want us to ever be locked into a single solution. I want to make sure we have an open ecosystem where we can replace components relatively easily as technology evolves.
On adopting a cloud mindset:
For network providers, there is a change in mentality of thinking . . . moving away from boxes and cables and that mindset, and really evolving into a world where we are adopting cloud software engineering best practices. You need to think about how you build your CI/CD pipelines, integrating with microservices and APIs in a config first approach.
We want to be in a world where we can purge and recreate any function on the fly, without high overhead of scheduled outages. So that is probably an easy example because from a carrier perspective cloud and your network in the cloud is cutting edge.
Even from a traditional IT standpoint, we still have paradigm shifts that we have to make. We want to avoid the trap of treating the cloud the same way we treat our data centers. In our data center, we will always over-provision to some extent, because we want to make sure we have adequate capacity and headroom so we can support lead times when it comes to procuring equipment. However, with the cloud, we can continuously optimize usage so that we can scale up as necessary. But also we need to make sure we continuously scale back down as we match the demand in our business.
On the cloud talent challenge:
Over the last couple years, we have worked closely with our partners to sort of co-innovate. And that has been a learning experience for all of us. There are a lot of capabilities that we have asked them to build into their solutions. We want to deploy changes faster. We want more visibility into performance. We want the ability to identify issues quickly. So, this creates a real demand on their part to put more cloud and platform engineering skills into their shops.
With consultants, we really lean on them to help bring thought leaders to us so that we can learn from them and also help us understand best practices. That allows us to evolve and improve. However, we also lean on them, to a certain degree, for elasticity of resources.
But most importantly, … is really our own employees. We are always on the hunt to grow our internal capability to support our cloud infrastructure. So, this includes cloud networking skills, cloud security, cloud architects, platform engineers. You name it, we want it…. I think the market has created some very big challenges. Because we are not the only ones who are looking for all these skills.
In this market, attracting and retaining [talent] is not enough. We have got to put the concerted effort into investing in our people, helping them retool with skills necessary to do their jobs, putting up people on paths to be certified cloud professionals.
7 lessons learned in hindsight:
Networking should not be underrated. If you are establishing direct connects to the cloud or you have transit gateways, there is a lot of work that you need your networking team to architect and manage. Just make sure you are doing that well.
Build your environments with security in mind, and not as an afterthought. That is for the obvious reasons that you want to make sure that you have the right access permissions and firewalls, etc. to protect your environment. That is job 1. But it is also easier to move with pace when you have standardized security processes in place.
Automation. When you have automation, you start to force standards, basically, through the automation—every environment is not a snowflake. If you do that, that will not only help security, but it also actually helps your new development efforts move faster.
Look to standardize on tools. It is easy for every development team to pick something different, which creates challenges when you want to scale across teams. It is not always one size fits all, but make sure you have a catalog of tools you want people to use and it is not a free-for-all. You want to avoid tool sprawl.
Plan on how you are going to work in a multicloud environment. Even if you do not plan on being multicloud, you might find yourself there just because you are using SaaS components or you are integrating back to your own private cloud. So really think about your network, data, and security architecture as it pertains to multicloud
Cost. It is easy to have independent teams managing their environments, but I would really encourage some centralized oversight. When you are in a pure consumption-based model, it is easy for costs to get out of hand. So, you need to have that strong oversight.
It really just comes back to architecture and governance. It is like the old adage, “Measure twice, cut once.” If you spend the extra time up front, I think you will save a considerable amount of time and money in the long run.
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Corporate Hy-Vee Dietitian
From cracking dad jokes and killing spiders, to coaching us to always keep our eye on the ball – dads are awesome! And, while they may not always admit it, we know they care about their health. June is Men’s Health Month as well as the month we celebrate Father’s Day, so let’s say “I love you” with the perfect picnic served with all of his favorite foods (and maybe a few healthy ones too)!
Packing the perfect picnic is simple with MyPlate. MyPlate focuses on including the five food groups (protein, grains, fruits, vegetables and dairy) in as many meals possible while also aiming to make half your plate filled with fruits and vegetables. Ask any Hy-Vee registered dietitian what food group is missing at most celebrations, and they’ll often say vegetables! Vegetables are essential for any holiday spread. Vegetables offer antioxidants that can help reduce inflammation, fiber that is key in promoting heart health, water content that helps keep us hydrated, and a variety of delicious textures that contribute to our plate.
This summer try switching up some of your sides with something besides potato and pasta salads that your family and friends will love. Examples of MyPlate picnic-friendly foods your Hy-Vee dietitians enjoy include:
Fruit: Try fruit kabobs or pack seasonal fruit like sliced watermelon and cherries.
Whole grains: Whole-wheat crackers, cornbread muffins and lightly salted popcorn make great additions to your picnic basket.
Protein: Mix it up with deviled eggs, low-sodium deli meat, mixed nuts, bean- or chickpea-based snacks like Beanitos.
Dairy: Cheese sticks or fresh mozzarella pearls are perfect to pack for your next picnic.
Veggies: Try sugar snap peas, mini bell peppers to dip in hummus or try our delicious Tarragon Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad recipe to prep ahead and pack for your vegetable side at your next picnic.
Short on time? For last-minute gatherings, swing by Hy-Vee for fresh fruit and veggie trays, cold sides like broccoli supreme salad, and custom charcuterie boards. Remember: Father’s Day comes just once a year. Make sure dad knows how special he is, and make sure he’s healthy for years to come!
This simple, make-ahead side dish is guaranteed to be a hit! And since you’re able to prep up to two days in advance, everyone can stress less and celebrate the most important men in their life more.
Tarragon Green Bean-and-Tomato Salad
Serves 6 (¾ cup each)
All you need
• 1½ lbs fresh green beans, trimmed
• 1½ tsp Hy-Vee salt, divided
• ¼ cup Gustare Vita extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
• 1 tbsp Gustare Vita red wine vinegar
• ¼ tsp Hy-Vee black pepper
• 2 cups halved red and/or yellow grape tomatoes
• 1 medium shallot, thinly sliced and separated into rings
• ½ cup Soirée crumbled Mediterranean herb feta cheese
All you do
1. Fill large saucepan half full with water; bring to boil. Add beans and ½ teaspoon salt. Reduce heat to medium. 2. Cover and simmer 8 to 12 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain; immediately rinse under cold water.
3. Whisk together olive oil, tarragon, vinegar, remaining 1 teaspoon salt and black pepper in large bowl. Add beans, tomatoes and shallot; toss to coat.
4. Serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate up to 2 days. To serve, transfer salad to a serving platter; sprinkle with feta cheese.
Source: Hy-Vee.com
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This information is not intended as medical advice. Please consult a medical professional for individual advice.
Dish, the fourth US carrier, says it expanded 5G in 120 cities.
Dish took on its fourth carrier role when Sprint and T-Mobile merged, and has been under the gun by the FCC to roll out the service. It's supposed to a viable competitor to its bigger rivals.
Dish will still need to provide more clarity on the service, which is still invite only for now.
Dish Network on Tuesday updated its Project Genesis site to say 5G service is live in more than 120 cities, marking a claim of nationwide coverage amid a Federal Communications Commission deadline to roll out service to at least a fifth of the country's population.
The announcement, a surprise change from earlier in the morning, when Las Vegas was the sole live city, could signal that the company, largely known for its satellite TV service, is finally getting serious about the wireless business. Dish acquired wireless spectrum for years, but very little of a wireless network materialized. Then in 2020, Dish entered the mobile market by acquiring some of Sprint's mobile licenses, which Sprint was shedding as part of its merger with T-Mobile. The complex transaction suddenly made Dish the country's fourth-biggest carrier and led to the creation of Dish Wireless service.
But the FCC had a stipulation. To ensure competition, the regulatory agency required Dish to make sure 20% of Americans would be covered by its 5G network by June 14. It's unclear if the 120 cities Dish turned on meets that threshold, and how many people the service covers. The "beta list" for the service is only available on an invite-basis only.
Dish wasn't available for comment, but Stephen Stokols, CEO of Dish-owned Boost Mobile, tweeted that 5G service is now live in 120 cities and linked to the Project Genesis site. When reached for comment, the FCC clarified that Dish is required to file status reports to the agency, with the first due on July 14.
"Consumers benefit when there is more competition in our wireless industry," an FCC spokesperson said over email. "We are closely monitoring DISH's 5G build out to ensure that they are meeting all of their requirements in the law."
A host of issues has conspired to trip up Dish. The company acknowledged during an earnings call earlier this year that it had underestimated how much work it would take to get its own 5G network up and running. Supply chain issues only made the situation worse.
It's unclear whether Dish will suffer any consequences if it ends up missing the deadline. Neither Dish nor the FCC responded to a request for comment.
Here's what you need to know about Dish's 5G plans:
The deadline is the result of a huge shift in the US mobile industry two years ago, when T-Mobile and Sprint combined in a $26.5 billion deal. The FCC nearly quashed the deal out of concern that it would lead to market concentration by taking one carrier out of the market. Only AT&T, Verizon and the new T-Mobile would remain.
But Dish, which tried to add mobile service to its satellite TV offerings a decade ago, saw the carrier consolidation as an opportunity to become a mobile player. The company paid $5 billion for Boost Mobile, Sprint's prepaid mobile brand, as well as Sprint's 800MHz wireless spectrum specifically for 5G. Dish also secured rights to use part of T-Mobile's 5G network.
Dish still needed to build out its own 5G network, a task that it started mostly from scratch. To ensure Dish mobile customers would have solid service, the FCC originally set March 7, 2020, as the deadline for the company to have its 5G network up and running. The FCC also stipulated that coverage should reach 20% of the US population.
The deadline, however, was pushed back at Dish's request several times. The latest deadline was set for June 14, 2022. Dish Chairman and co-founder Charlie Ergen decided against requesting another extension and expected that the carrier would meet the FCC deadline, the Fierce Wireless news site reported in May.
Dish updated its Project Genesis website the day of the deadline to say its 5G network has reached over 120 cities. But we don't know how many people in those cities are covered by the network, and ergo whether Dish has met its goal of covering 20% of the US population by June 14. According to the FCC's terms, failing to meet the deadline could result in Dish's license for wireless spectrums being revoked and paying fines of up to $2.2 billion, the Light Reading news site reported earlier this year.
In early May, Dish made its 5G service publicly available in Las Vegas. Customers sign up for the service through "Project Genesis," an early access program that costs $30 per month and currently is only available on Motorola Edge Plus handsets. (The service plans accommodate other phones in the future.)
In February, Dish had said its 5G service would be live in more than two dozen cities by the June deadline. And after the Las Vegas service launched to the public, the carrier published a list of 113 cities it planned to include in Project Genesis. As recently as its first quarter earnings call in May, Dish had said it remained confident that it would activate 5G service in enough cities to reach 20% of the US population by the June deadline.
The carrier didn't make public where 5G service was live beyond its first city until today, when it suddenly listed over 120 more cities that now have active service on the Project Genesis site. The service remains invite-only, and we don't know how much area in each city is covered.
In addition to securing Sprint's 800MHz range, Dish has also bid in several separate auctions to secure 5G spectrum licenses. These include spending $7.3 billion in January on midband 5G in the 3.45GHz spectrum and $913 million on the so-called C-band 5G in 2020. Combined, the chunks of connected 5G spectrum will serve as the backbone of its service.
While Dish can use some of T-Mobile's 5G spectrum for years to come as part of agreements between the carriers, Dish also paid AT&T at least $5 billion in July 2021 for a 10-year contract to lean on the latter's 5G network while it builds out its own infrastructure.
Unlike other carriers, which built their 5G networks on existing 4G LTE, Dish has more or less been building its network from scratch. It's also building the service on OpenRAN, a flexible type of cellular network that uses infrastructure from multiple vendors.
Dish executives have acknowledged that they'd underestimated the work it would take to build their network and that they hadn't anticipated supply chain issues.
Update, 1 pm PT and 3:45 pm PT: To include more details of the Project Genesis site and the 120 new cities.
It’s always fascinating to learn more about the dishes that accomplished chefs consider their favorites. Their palates seem to distinguish so much more about ingredients and seasonings than the average eater.
And for Food Network personality Alex Guarnaschelli, her favorite chicken dish, as it turns out, isn’t a gourmet meal or beyond the reach of an everyday kitchen at all.
In her food-centered blog for People, the chef opened up about the chicken dish that won her heart. It all started with chicken thighs.
“Other than a straight roasted breast with some fresh thyme and salt, I will admit that I gravitate towards chicken thighs,” the Chopped judge wrote. “They have that bit of fat and a thick layer of skin that adds great flavor and insulation for searing and braising.”
And, she added, the chicken meal she enjoys so much became a favorite without her even realizing it. In fact, it became her go-to more times, seemingly, than she could remember.
“The following recipe is just tasty, and it’s a sleeper that snuck up on me over a period of a few years. I kept coming back to it as a ‘rainy day’ dish or something that I make and let sit overnight to warm up for my daughter and me on an evening when I have less time to cook.”
And on the side with this sumptuous chicken? “I drop this on a bed of Basmati rice or simple roasted potatoes. I also love it with braised Savoy cabbage or whole roasted carrots.”
Get the full recipe on Guarnaschelli’s blog in People.
Just about every meat-eating individual has their favorite chicken dish, whether it’s a fried bucket of chicken, grilled chicken breast, or kid-friendly chicken tenders.
The chef’s easy dish and the ultimate one-skillet meal features chicken thighs and legs, whole cumin seeds, chili flakes, thinly sliced onion, grated ginger, garlic cloves, canned tomatoes, coconut milk, cinnamon sticks, dried or fresh bay leaves, and, as needed, water.
To put this better-than-takeout recipe together, the chicken pieces are browned in a large skillet.
Guarnaschelli offers two important pieces of advice here: “Do not overcrowd the pan,” and once the chicken has been placed in the hot oil, “Resist the temptation to move or turn the pieces.” To achieve a gorgeous golden color, the chicken will need to brown for about five to eight minutes on that first side.
After that, they can brown for about five minutes on their other side and then rest on a plate or tray. They’ll return to the skillet once the sauce is assembled.
The rest of the ingredients are added to create a full-bodied sauce that the chicken pieces are tucked into and then braised in for about half an hour, “until the pieces are cooked through.”
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A major private networks deal in the UK, cold sweat time for US 5G challenger Dish Network, and some Maverick moves by the ‘Un-carrier’ top today’s pile of news tidbits.
The Port of Tyne in the north-east of England has turned to the UK national operator BT and its partner Ericsson for the deployment of a hybrid 4G/5G private network and associated surveillance and smart technology. According to the port, the network, which builds upon work already carried out as part of the facility’s in-house innovation programme (the 2050 Maritime Innovation Hub), will be up and running later this year to “provide fast and low latency connectivity across the port’s entire estate, opening up the potential for the development and implementation of both established and emerging technology”. The port’s tech team has already identified two initial use cases – a quayside operational optimisation programme and optical character recognition (OCR) container tracking – with “scope to expand 5G coverage for future use cases in years to come”. Matt Beeton, CEO of the Port of Tyne, commented: “5G is an enabler and offers us huge potential to implement world-class technology applications and drive real progress in the port and maritime sectors. We already have a range of use-case scenarios developed through the Innovation Hub and are ready to collaborate with technology companies to validate these exciting new solutions.” BT and Ericsson recently brokered a “multimillion-pound new joint partnership to provide commercial 5G private networks for the UK market”, with Port of Tyne the first public example of success since the relationship was announced, though the duo have previously built a private 5G network for Belfast Harbour.
It’s crunch time for Dish Network, the US mobile network newcomer that has spent the past couple of years building an Open RAN-based 5G network: The deadline for Dish to make its 5G services available to 20% of the US population is today, 14 June, and while there are still a few hours of the day remaining (as this article was being written), it would be a minor miracle for the operator to make the cut as, so far, it has only offered its service in Las Vegas. Dish noted earlier this year that it was gearing up to launch its 5G service in 125 cities across the US, but the lack of announcements from the company is somewhat concerning. So if it doesn’t pull the 5G rabbit from the magic hat before the end of today, what will happen? In theory, the US regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would have the right to revoke its licence and levy financial penalties, but it’s hard to see the former happening (though the latter seems more of a possibility). Dish’s stock is down on the Nasdaq by 1.7% to $17.98 in early trading today: That could head further south in the absence of positive 5G news for the company and sink even lower if the deadline is missed and the FCC takes action.
T-Mobile US has tapped into the cultural zeitgeist by referencing an over-used Top Gun quote to boast about its latest 5G bandwidth achievements. The service provider says it aggregated three channels of mid-band spectrum – two channels of 2.5 GHz 'Ultra Capacity 5G' and one channel of 1900 MHz spectrum – to create what is effectively a 210 MHz 5G channel capable of delivering data speeds of more than 3 Gbit/s on its standalone (SA) 5G network. The milestone was achieved using a commercial device – the Samsung Galaxy S22 housing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform with Snapdragon X65 Modem-RF System – connected to T-Mobile’s live production network. "This test demonstrates the incredible power of mid-band spectrum and represents another huge step forward for standalone 5G," boasted Neville Ray, president of technology at T-Mobile. "Only T-Mobile is delivering a nationwide standalone 5G network to customers today, and we’re blazing a trail with new performance-boosting capabilities that generate incredible speeds and deliver on our vision to create the highest capacity network in the country." And the Top Gun quote? T-Mobile channelled Tom Cruise character Maverick to open its overly self-praising press release with the words: “The Un-carrier feels the need. The need for speed.” We kid you not.
Bharti Airtel has announced what it claims to be “India’s first multiplex” on the Partynite Metaverse, a blockchain-powered digital parallel universe developed by Gamitronics. Its Xstream multiplex is a 20-screen platform that offers access to immersive experiences when users watch content from “leading” over-the-top (OTT) players. The service also provides “multiple engagement layers” that allow users to interact in the metaverse. The multiplex offering acts as an extension of Airtel’s video streaming service, Xstream Premium, which hit two million subscribers within 100 days of its launch. “Airtel’s Xstream multiplex provides a larger-than-life experience, which brings together Web 3.0 apps and immersive storytelling, and an assortment of content from our partners”, said Shashwat Sharma, director of marketing at Airtel. Rajat Ojha, founder of Partynite, described Airtel Xstream multiplex as “one of the most scalable use case scenarios for the metaverse”. See more.
Aside from enabling a more enticing entertainment experience, virtual worlds can also be used to ease collaboration efforts between people in different locations. On this basis, Nvidia has unveiled a project that is enabling two UK-based engineering teams, located remotely, to work together on a digital twin of an electric vehicle (EV) battery. The project is using edge computing and “the world’s first 5G-enabled VR [virtual reality] technology” which helps achieve fewer inefficiencies and quicker design processes, according to the company. It is being carried out by Hyperbat, a UK-based EV battery manufacturer, while other participants including BT, Ericsson, the GRID Factory, Masters of Pie and Qualcomm, have developed a proof of concept that uses VR to power collaborative sessions.
Zain Group has partnered with Atos to provide products and services to its business customers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) targeting the digital transformation of enterprises. Through its digital and ICT solutions arm, ZainTech, the Kuwait-based operator said it will offer state-of-the-art managed cybersecurity solutions to monitor, contain and “respond to threats 24/7”, in addition to cloud solutions to help enterprises deliver innovative digital technologies. As part of the partnership, it will also provide the Atos Computer Vision Platform, an end-to-end video analytics platform that offers pre-trained and customisable AI models to businesses, governments and communities. Zain believes the collaboration with Atos will allow it to “deliver best-in-class support to customers regionally”, starting with its home market. The opportunities in the market are tipped to grow continuously, with Gartner predicting IT spending in MENA to reach $1.7bn in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 2.6%. Find out more.
The Fiber Connect show has opened its doors in Nashville, so you can expect to hear plenty of strained references to country music classics this week as we reference the news announcement highlights from the event. First to walk the line (sorry Johnny...) is Nokia, which is showing off prototype passive optical network (PON) gear capable of delivering 100 Gbit/s downstream over a single wavelength using advanced digital signal processing (DSP) technology. It wasn’t that long ago that 100 Gbit/s was exciting network operators looking to beef up their metro and long-haul networks, so the fixed broadband access sector has come a long way (spurred on, of course, by the fact that operators are actually laying decent volumes of fibre lines in their access networks these days). Read more.
The long-promised benefits of network slicing have so far failed to manifest themselves in any meaningful way, but will the introduction of 5G standalone (SA) core platforms be the catalyst for some real-world use cases? Amdocs says it has successfully demonstrated some “next-generation experiences and on-demand connectivity for consumers and enterprises through the deployment, management and monetisation of 5G network slices” in a proof of concept (PoC) conducted with Telekom Austria. Amdocs says its technology was used to “demonstrate end-to-end lifecycle management of 5G network slices and virtualized applications over public/private cloud and edge, including design, build, instantiation, modification and termination, with automatic closed-loop capabilities”. The vendor added that it "showcased the monetization potential of next-generation 5G SA by creating new and innovative commercial models that are aligned with 3GPP standards, including a simulated customer-facing portal for ordering network slices. The conclusion of the PoC was that both design time and time to market were significantly reduced, from hours or days to just minutes." The fabulously named Juergen Wolf-Hofer, head of network evolution at A1 Telekom Austria Group, noted: “We are delighted with the results of this project, which underlines the exciting possibilities of 5G and Amdocs’ vital role in enabling the deployment and monetization of 5G network slices. The deliverable use cases that were demonstrated in relation to Amdocs’ end-to-end service and network orchestration solution are very exciting. We will take the learnings from the project and apply them as we look to introduce next-generation 5G services to our consumer and enterprise customers.” Read more.
Italy’s minister for technological innovation and digital transition has awarded a contract worth €725m to Telecom Italia (TIM) for the deployment of 5G networks. The tender includes funding for up to 90% of the work, which will be carried out in six areas in Italy. Any other interested operators will also receive wholesale access to the financed infrastructure. According to the government, the goal is for more than 11,000 mobile radio sites to be connected by optical fibre by 2026; these are tipped to serve as the backbone of high-speed 5G networks. The initiative is part of Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, which will see total investments of €6.7bn for the widespread deployments of 5G and fibre, alongside measures to create cutting-edge technologies applicable for Industry 4.0 and to digitalise the public administration of the country. Read more (in Italian).
The CEO of network operator Veon, Kaan Terzioğlu, has praised the efforts of the company’s team in Ukraine, where mobile operator Kyivstar is Veon’s local operation. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in late-February, “more than 3,400 repairs of base stations have been performed, and some 26,500 metres of broken fibre-optics have been replaced,” noted the CEO in a public letter to investors. “More than 90% of Kyivstar’s network is still operational. We have added 100 new base stations across the western part of the country and upgraded hundreds more with the latest technologies to enable uninterrupted communications,” he added. Read more.
- The staff, TelecomTV
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