Symmetricom Strengthens Its Commitment to the Cable Industry; Names Industry Veteran David Nicholas VP of Sales for Cable

In line with today’s announcement of combining its Telecom Solutions and QoE Assurance divisions, Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM) today announced it has added key industry veterans to support the company’s commitment to the cable industry, highlighted by the appointment of cable veteran David Nicholas, as vice president of sales for cable. Nicholas has a 25-year career in the cable industry, with domestic and international experience in new business development, direct and indirect sales channels and technology transitions for companies such as Panasonic, Pioneer, Texscan MSI, Concurrent, N2Broadband (now Tandberg TV), Vyyo and BigBand Networks. In forming his sales team, Nicholas brings with him John Quesenbury from BigBand Networks, where he was principal systems engineer, and previously served as systems implementation specialist at Cox Interactive Media. "With David Nicholas leading our sales efforts in the cable industry, we’re in a solid position to support the rollout of DOCSIS 3.0 and the video quality assurance needs of the cable industry,” said Tom Steipp, president and chief executive officer of Symmetricom. "We are excited and remain very committed to serving the needs of the cable industry and look forward to a long and strategic partnership with key cable industry leaders.” "I am very pleased to be joining Symmetricom at such an exciting time for the company. Time synchronization and video quality monitoring are critical for cable operator revenue growth now and in the future, and Symmetricom is ideally positioned to meet this demand,” said David Nicholas, vice president of sales for cable. "I am looking forward to working with the Symmetricom team to contribute to the company’s ongoing success and to take our solutions to the next level of market penetration within the cable industry.” Building upon 50 years of experience in the communications industry, Symmetricom entered cable in 2007 with its DOCSIS® Timing Interface (DTI) server, the TimeCreator™ 1000. Qualified by CableLabs®, TimeCreator1000 is a network time synchronization system specifically designed for cable networks, enabling key revenue generating service offerings such as video on demand (VoD), high definition (HD) and broadband data services. This year, Symmetricom launched its V-FACTOR® Quality of Experience (QoE) Platform for cable, which delivers a perceptual video quality monitoring solution that cable operators need today to satisfy subscriber expectations for better video quality. V-FACTOR enables the end-to-end monitoring of key sources of potential video and audio impairments by providing a scalable solution that accurately assesses consumers’ video quality experience, precisely as a real viewer perceives it. Today Symmetricom announced it is combining the Telecom Solutions division and the Quality of Experience (QoE) division to leverage synergies and bring additional operational efficiencies to the organization. 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), GPS timing receivers, 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), and others supporting the world’s migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.symmetricom.com.