Analyst Profile

Bjarne Munch

Principal Research Analyst

16 years at Gartner , 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

How to Choose the Right Level of Agility for Your Next Global Enterprise WAN
29-Mar-2018
Critical Capabilities for Network Services, Asia/Pacific
14-Mar-2018
Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global
27-Feb-2018

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

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