Peter Jordan

What is your role at Telarus?

I am the Channel Program Manager for Telarus. The Telarus Channel Program allows our partners such as IT integrators or telephony suppliers to refer or sell Telarus’ full suit of voice and data services to their clients.

What are your key responsibilities?

This year, I will be focusing my attention on three main areas to drive the Telarus Channel Program. These will include: keeping our channel partners up to date with evolving voice and data solutions; assisting them to develop tailored voice and data solutions for their end clients and expanding the program to add new channel partners. In addition, I look after the ongoing account management needs of a large number of our existing clients that have been referred to Telarus by our partners.

How long have you been in the ICT industry?

Over five years – long enough to know who’s who and what’s what in the ever changing world of ICT.

What areas/technologies do you specialise in?

The delivery of large scale WAN data networks with complex requirements is the area that I have been working in for many years. What is really exciting about working at Telarus is the breath of the services we can provide. As our solutions can incorporate best of breed last mile services from all of the major carriers we often win business against the majors because we can deliver a data solution that is not possible for a single carrier.

What have been the highlights of your career?

There have been many but overall I would say joining Telarus as a start up with a strong vision of the future nearly five years ago and seeing us now delivering on that vision gives me a great deal of pride.

What challenges have you faced in your career (and how did you overcome them)?

Like many people these days, the greatest challenge has been to juggle the needs of a young family with a fast paced and demanding work environment. The key is good time management and keeping the big picture in mind.

Which technology is going to have the biggest impact on the industry in the next five years?

In terms of voice services it will undoubtedly be the continued move to VoIP and the convergence of mobile technology. Businesses are starting to understand that VoIP is not just about cutting call costs but the greater payoff is through added functionality and the productivity that it provides.

Over the next five years we will see wired and unwired data networks delivering much high bandwidth (100Mb/s plus) at affordable costs that will be able to support the voice, video and data triple play that businesses are moving to.