Symmetricom Globally Recognized Timing Experts to Speak at International Telecommunications Synchronization Forum (ITSF)

Symmetricom®, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency technologies, announced today that five of its synchronization experts will speak at the International Telecommunications Synchronization Forum (ITSF) conference at The Shelbourne Dublin on November 2-4, Dublin, Ireland. The focus of this year’s ITSF conference is addressing the standards and requirements for today’s emerging timing technologies. Symmetricom, a Diamond sponsor of this event, will exhibit its leading-edge timing technology and portfolio of standards-based synchronization solutions for telecommunications.

“The evolution of carrier networks from TDM to Ethernet has created unique timing and synchronization challenges for the telecommunications industry,” stated Charles Curry, ITSF Chairman. “Symmetricom’s team of synchronization experts has made significant contributions to the development of new timing protocols that have helped standardize synchronization technology and moved our industry into a very new and exciting direction.”

“ITSF provides a unique forum for synchronization leaders to collaborate on telecommunications best practices for the adoption and deployment of leading standards-based timing solutions. Symmetricom is honored to be at the core of standards creation and to have our sync experts share practical solutions for scalable deployments of new technologies and products,” said Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing at Symmetricom. “Our unique portfolio of end-to-end sync solutions enables our customers to deploy efficient networks when migrating to Carrier Ethernet.”

Symmetricom synchronization experts speaking at ITSF include:

November 2, 2010

• 09:35: James Armstrong, Executive Vice President and General Manager, will be delivering the keynote address on “Synchronization Challenges in Telecom Networks.”
• 14:30 Lee Cosart, Symmetricom Senior Technologist, will be speaking on “Packet Network Timing Measurements, Metrics and Analysis.”

November 3, 2010

• 13:45 Hartmut Roth, Symmetricom Vice president of Sales, EMEA, is providing the opening commentary for the “Phase, Time and Timing Generation and Distribution” session.
• 14:15 Barry Dropping, Director, Product Marketing, will be speaking on “Preparing Your Network for Synchronous Ethernet.”
• 15:35: Tim Frost, Principal Technologist, will be delivering the “Approaches to Local Area Distribution of Precise Time” presentation.

Symmetricom, will be exhibiting its comprehensive portfolio of standards-based solutions, including the TimeProvider® 5000 grandmaster clock, TimeProvider® 500 translator, TimeAnalyzer test and analysis tools, the TimePictra management platform and TimeMonitor measurement software. Symmetricom embedded technology that will be highlighted includes the SCi 2000 Embedded Software Clock, a high performance and power-efficient solution for network equipment manufacturers and silicon vendors. Symmetricom solutions will be exhibited at stand #8 at ITSF.

About ITSF 2010

This year’s conference theme is “Meeting the Microsecond Challenge” and will address the challenges facing the telecommunications community in delivering increasingly stringent precise time and frequency requirements in the deployment of synchronization networks.

About Symmetricom, Inc.

Symmetricom (NASDAQ:SYMM), a world leader in precise time solutions, sets the world’s standard for time. The company generates, distributes and applies precise time for the communications, aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure and metrology industries. Symmetricom’s customers, from communications service providers and network equipment manufacturers to governments and their suppliers worldwide, are able to build more reliable networks and systems by using the company’s advanced timing technologies, atomic clocks, services and solutions. All products support today’s precise timing standards, including GPS-based timing, IEEE 1588 (PTP), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Synchronous Ethernet and DOCSIS® timing. Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit: www.symmetricom.com.

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