{"id":9858,"date":"2020-05-22T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=9858"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:04:41","slug":"ringside-interview-martin-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/ringside-interview-martin-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringside: Interview with Martin Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Ringside series, we began by talking to our own leaders to get insights into the challenges and solutions of the telecommunications industry. It\u2019s time to expand that approach to include more voices. Over the next few episodes, we\u2019re drawing on the wit and wisdom of our partners to show a broader perspective of the business communications industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

This post features Martin Jones, Managing Director of <\/span>LAN3<\/span><\/a>, an award winning IT network integrator. Martin has been in the glamorous world of IT since 1996, when he worked for a company that fixed and cleaned Exabyte tape drives. As Martin describes this pinnacle, \u201cIt was only going to go downhill after that!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the world of work, Martin is a big Welsh rugby and Liverpool<\/a> FC fan, and is the happy father of two teenage girls. Balancing the mind of a teenager with the body of a pensioner, Martin is keen on playing sport, but can barely walk for a week after 20 mins weeding in his garden. Something of a silver lining, lockdown is allowing him to get plenty of training in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin, what are the challenges and opportunities of your role at LAN3?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The challenges and opportunities facing networking, security and communications have all changed because of the world health crisis. Whilst I believe employees will look forward to returning to the office, to catch up with their colleagues (face to face), I think that business leaders will reflect on the costs of \u2018real estate\u2019 and decide that money spent on building leases could be better spent on wages or presented in the bottom line! LAN3 has reacted to these changes, delivering solutions for secure and efficient remote working, as well as the office(s). The challenges of \u2018life after lockdown\u2019 will be coping with depleted or delayed budgets. LAN3 has planned for this uncertainty, with our new partnership with RingCentral being symptomatic of our wider approach.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t