Analyst Profile
Bjarne Munch
Principal Research Analyst
16 years at Gartner
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32 years industry experience
Brisbane, Australia
Roles and Responsibilities
Bjarne Munch is a Principal Research Analyst in Gartner, based in Brisbane, Australia. Mr. Munch is also Agenda Manager for the research area "communication enterprise strategies," which takes responsibility for Gartner's research coverage within the area of enterprise networking, network services, PSTN, SIP trunking, mobile services and unified communications. This includes aspects such as evaluation of WAN services and service providers, trend and evolution of network services, WAN architectures, hybrid WAN, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, service-level agreements, contract proposal reviews, and terms and conditions. It also include unified communications and unified communications as a service strategies and service proposal reviews.
Areas of Coverage
- Networking & Communications Equipment
- Networking & Communications Services
Bjarne Munch's Recent Gartner Activity
Latest Research
Background
Previous Experience
His responsibilities include research and advisory work in enterprise networking, network service procurement, unified communications, unified communication as a service and related services. His particular interests include enterprise network design best practices, global and Asia/Pacific regional WAN services and providers, cloud connectivity, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and hybrid WAN, application networking such as WAN optimization and application acceleration, and IP telephony and unified communications. Mr. Munch provides strategic and technical advice on network service and managed network service strategies, sourcing best practices, terms and conditions, contract reviews, service-level agreements, best practice WAN architectures as well as advice on unified communications and unified communication as a service strategy development. Mr. Munch has more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Gartner, he worked for Ericsson, Australia, and was responsible for the line of business convergent communication. Before this, he was a Lead Solution Architect in the Ericsson Convergent Communication group. He has also served as Chairman of the Global Fixed Switch Product Development Council. As such, Mr. Munch has extensive experience with telecommunications technology, services and solutions, as well as experience in implementation of IP telephony solutions.
Professional Background
Ericsson, Strategic Product Manager - IP Convergence, 15 years
Meta Group, Senior Research Analyst, 2 years
Education
Master of Science in System Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark
Languages
English
