Jay Salkini

Jay Salkini is founder and former president and Chief Executive Officer (since 1991) of Tecore Networks. He envisioned, developed and patented a wireless technology that has been installed in networks around the globe.
Background and education
In 1981, at the age of 17, Salkini arrived in Florida to pursue his college education, where he turned his childhood interest in electronics into an academic pursuit. While attending Florida Atlantic University (FAU), he also worked part-time at IBM. Following his graduation from FAU with his bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he took a position at Siemens working on software development for telecommunications switching systems. While at Siemens, he continued graduate study and received his master of computer engineering degree, and three years later joined Nortel as a consultant. He developed significant early experience in wireless communication, which was a nascent field when he started, but which has since become one of the fastest growing industries worldwide.
Patents
Salkini has the following patents to his name:
* Multi-protocol wireless communication apparatus and method:
U.S. Patents No. 6,912,230 and 7,733,901. A scalable, multi-protocol mobile switching center in a wireless communications network provides communications control for digital and analog wireless communications devices including devices that operate according to GSM and IS-41 standards. The hardware and software architecture of the switching center is designed so that processing that is unique to a particular protocol is performed at the lowest possible level, and remaining processing can use generic procedures. The switching center incorporates a home location register and visitor location register that are used in conjunction with software applications to determine the protocol of mobile communications devices using the wireless communications network. The mobile switching center can be used to provide a large scale distributed wireless network or a small scale wireless network. The switching center can also be used as an adjunct to a private branch exchange to provide in-building wireless services and call control. Graphical user interfaces make the wireless communications network easy to maintain.
*Position location for airborne networks:
U.S. Patent No. 7,460,866. A wireless communications system, and a corresponding method, for use with an aircraft, includes airborne pico cell base stations mounted on the aircraft, the base stations capable of communication with wireless devices used by subscribers on the aircraft via using switching/transaction processing equipment located optionally on the aircraft or in the ground network with one or more ground-based networks. The system includes aircraft location equipment, in communication with the base stations, that determine the aircraft's location, including latitude, longitude, altitude, and other relevant data. Finally, the system includes a wireless communications enable/disable module that receives the aircraft's location and enables and disables wireless communications through the base stations based on the aircraft's location.
Awards
In 2009 Salkini was inducted into the FAU National Alumni Association Hall of Fame).
Company
Salkini's company, Tecore Networks, develops and manufactures equipment for the wireless communications industry. Among its products is a system marketed to prisons to prevent the use of contraband cell phones and other wireless devices smuggled into inmates. The systems are in use in Maryland.
The same contraband detection system had previously been deployed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary and other state prisons in Mississippi, which until recently had been under the direction and leadership of Christopher Epps. Mr. Epps has recently stepped down from his post as Mississippi prisons commissioner amid a host of federal indictments.

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