**Exhibit
      31.1**






**CERTIFICATION
      PURSUANT TO**


**SECTION
      302(a) OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002**




I,
      Edward
      B. Kornfeld, certify that I am the duly elected chief executive officer and
      chief financial officer of Porta Systems Corp. (the “Issuer”) and that:




1.
      I have
      reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of the Issuer;




2.  Based
      on
      my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a
      material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the
      circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect
      to the period covered by this report;




3.         Based
      on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
      included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
      condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Issuer as of, and for,
      the periods presented in this report;




4.         I
      am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
      procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the
      Issuer and have:




a)         Designed
      such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls
      and
      procedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that material
      information relating to the Issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries,
      is
      made known to me by others within those entities, particularly during the period
      in which this report is being prepared;




b)         Designed
      such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control
      over financial reporting to be designed under my supervision, to provide
      reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
      preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
      generally accepted accounting principles; and




c)         Evaluated
      the effectiveness of the Issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and
      presented in this report my conclusions about the effectiveness of the
      disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by
      this
      report based on such evaluation; and




d)         Disclosed
      in this report any change in the Issuer’s internal control over financial
      reporting that occurred during the Issuer’s most recent quarter (the Issuer’s
      fourth quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected,
      or
      is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Issuer’s internal control over
      financial reporting; and




5.         I
      have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over
      financial reporting, to the Issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the
      Issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent
      functions):




a)         All
      significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation
      of
      internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
      adversely affect the Issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report
      financial information; and




b)         Any
      fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees
      who
      have a significant role in the Issuer’s control over financial
      reporting.




Date:
      March 28, 2008




/s/
      Edward B. Kornfeld *


Edward
      B.
      Kornfeld


Chief
      Executive Officer


Chief
      Financial Officer




*
          The originally executed copy of this Certification will
      be maintained at the Registrant’s offices and will be made available for
      inspection upon request.