Symmetricom Announces New Vice President of Engineering of Telecom Solutions Division

James Armstrong brings extensive technical experience to support evolving synchronization and timing requirements for next-generation networks.

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 2006 -- Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, today announced James Armstrong has been named vice president of engineering of the company’s Telecom Solutions Division. James joins Symmetricom with 12 years of experience developing products for the telephone and cable industries. Most recently, he was president of Movidis, Inc., a privately held company that develops high-performance networking equipment for OEM and enterprise markets.

“As synchronization and timing requirements evolve to support emerging applications in next-generation networks, James’ extensive technical experience and proven leadership abilities will help us to further prepare for the impending growth opportunities,” commented Thomas Steipp, president and CEO of Symmetricom. “With Symmetricom’s leadership position in the market combined with James’ executive direction, we will continue to drive advanced technology development to meet the evolving needs’ of the telecom industry.”

In his new role, James is responsible for defining and executing the mission, strategy and objectives for the technology organization with a rigorous quality assurance (QA) process. He will lead a multidisciplinary team of electronic hardware, embedded software and QA engineers providing both strategic and tactical contributions to the company.

From 1998-2002, James served as vice president of software development at DIVA Systems, a provider of interactive, on-demand television products and services, leading new technology development for video servers, QAM products and content distribution systems. Prior to that, he was manager of software and advanced development at Sarnoff Corporation, product developer for electronic, biomedical and information technology markets, managing the software development of three generations of video-on-demand servers that were deployed to several major U.S. cable companies. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University.

“I am very excited to lead the engineering effort of an industry leader with products proven in its market, as well as an aggressive technology development plan,” commented James Armstrong, new vice president of engineering for Symmetricom. “There are a growing number of next generation telecommunication services that require new timing products and protocols, which Symmetricom is well positioned to deliver."

James is located at Symmetricom headquarters, 2300 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, California, 95131, tel +1 408 433 0910, fax +1 408 428 7896.

About Symmetricom, Inc.

As a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency products and services, Symmetricom provides “Perfect Timing” to customers around the world. Since 1985, the company’s solutions have helped define the world’s time and frequency standards, delivering precision, reliability and efficiency to wireline and wireless networks, instrumentation and testing applications and network time management. Deployed in more than 90 countries, the company’s synchronization solutions include primary reference sources, building integrated timing supplies (BITS) (http://symmtsd.com/products/bits_ssu/index.asp), GPS timing receivers (http://symmttm.com/gps-solutions.html), time and frequency distribution systems, network time servers and ruggedized oscillators. Symmetricom also incorporates technologies including Universal Timing Interface (UTI), Network Time Protocol (NTP), Precision Time Protocol (IEEE 1588 (http://www.symmttm.com/products_gps_XLI_IEEE_1588.asp)), and others supporting the world’s migration to Next-Generation-Networks (NGN) (http://ntp-systems.com/Next_Generation_Network.html). Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.

Contacts:

Raychel Marcotte

BroadPR

+1-617-645-6022

Jeanne Hopkins

Symmetricom

+1-617-818-1785

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