Christian Canales is a Senior Research Director within Gartner's Technology Market Insights team, part of the Technology and Service Providers research group. Mr. Canales specializes in analyzing the enterprise (business) wired and wireless LAN market, encompassing market sizing, forecasting, market trends, competitive landscapes, and buying behavior and implementation best practices. He additionally covers network security and WAN edge technologies.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Canales worked as a statistics coordinator for telecommunication projects in Gartner's Statistical Unit in London.
Research International, Market Researcher, 1 years
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Degree, University of Westminster, London
Market trends, competitive landscape and market sizing for the overall enterprise network equipment market, including LAN, WAN and network security technologies
LAN vendor evaluation (switches and WLAN equipment) and implementation best practices
Enterprise network equipment vendor market shares, including network switches, WLAN (Wi-Fi), SD-WAN, firewall, NDR and ZTNA
Network firewall and FWaaS market trends, including SASE as an adjacent market
Network detection and response (NDR)