Dr Loay Khalaf worked in system and circuit design for several international companies. He worked at NORTEL on digital and fiber loop carriers designing multiprocessor boards. He also worked at Scientific Atlanta (now a part of Cisco) on RF cable receivers (analog and digital) and cable modems. Dr Khalaf worked on Cellular handset design at NEC Wireless before cofounding Telematix, where he designed VLSI modems for the 802.11G CDMA/CCK/OFDM WLAN before joining the University of Jordan.