Bjarne Munch

Gartner analyst for 22 years (include 4 years with META Group) guiding and supporting senior leaders in enterprises, governments, vendors and service providers.

I have supported hundreds of enterprise and government clients with their critical projects, such as large global network modernization, WAN/SD-WAN solution design, IP telephony and UCaaS transformation, secure network architecture design, SSE/SASE migration strategies, contract renewals, application performance optimization.

I have also supported leading networking vendors and service provider with market updates, product development and marketing workshops, briefings and SWOT creation.

I hold subject matter expertise in:

• Wide Area Networking: Architectural designs including cloud connectivity, monitoring, WAN technologies and services such as MPLS, Ethernet, Internet, Enhanced Internet, SD-WAN, SASE, FWA, LEO satellite, Private 5G, NFV, and NaaS.
• Network Security: Modern architectural design, SASE, ZTNA, Firewall/FWaaS, including managed SASE.
• Network Resilience: Best practice architectural design, including high availability designs, cloud failover, load balancing, performance monitoring, SLA monitoring, and digital experience monitoring.
• Service and Market Evaluations: Competitive analysis, service roadmap creation, Go-to-market strategies, market messaging, and detailed provider comparison for a range of services, such as Telephony/PSTN, mobile, WAN, LAN, UCaaS, co-location, and managed services.
• Sourcing: All aspects of service and product sourcing, including managed services, such as commercial evaluations, business analysis, requirements gathering, RFP design, SLA definition and governance, response evaluation, solution transformation, vendor/provider management, and negotiations.