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Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM), a worldwide leader in precise time and frequency technologies that accelerate the deployment and enable the management of next generation networks, today announced the debut of its new V-Factor� Q-1200 Headend Analyzer, an automated, efficient and scalable solution for monitoring video content in the headend, at TelcoTV 2008 on November 11�13, 2008 in Orange County, Calif. This is the first, live demonstration of the Q-1200, which enhances Symmetricom's V-Factor Quality of Experience (QoE) end-to-end monitoring platform with content validation. The headend is of particular importance for assuring video quality as degradations in the headend have the highest potential for impacting the most number of viewers. �The competition between telcos, cable and satellite service providers to gain or preserve market position is driving the need for higher quality content with better service availability,� commented Gurdip Jande, senior vice president of marketing for Symmetricom. �By validating content at the source through analyzing video impairments, the Q-1200 helps the entire digital video distribution chain manage service quality, ultimately reducing provider operating costs as well as customer churn. For content owners and producers, validating content at the source provides them the ability to enforce quality SLAs and control their brand.� In addition, TelcoTV will highlight the need for QoE solutions with a special panel of leading experts, including Matthieu Chamik, product manager, QoE Solutions at Symmetricom. The panel is entitled, �Quality of Service: The Service Provider Trump Card,� and takes place on Thursday, November 13, 2008, 1:00 � 2:00 p.m. PST. These industry leaders will discuss the importance of service level quality, including service providers and all players collaborating toward delivering a quality experience that consumers will appreciate. Symmetricom also announced today that HP has expanded its integration of Symmetricom products to the new Q-1200, now being integrated into the HP Next Generation OSS Service�Assurance platform. A comprehensive business service and application management solution, BAC monitors the health of business services and applications from the consumer�s point of view. The Q-1200 is vital to delivering high quality video, critical to any successful IP-based video offering. As part of Symmetricom's V-Factor Quality of Experience (QoE) platform, the Q-1200: Performs comprehensive audio/video analysis on 100 video streams simultaneously and content analysis on up to 16 uncompressed video channels Uniquely and accurately identifies video impairments from basic service issues to sophisticated video artifacts such as channel audio and/or video dropout, black screen, blocky or frozen video Performs specialized functionality at the headend helping to eliminate garbage-in-garbage-out video degradation and quality issues that can affect millions of viewers Aids operators in the ability to accurately correlate video quality impairments with network impairments as results are managed through the central element management system that also aggregates results from the other V-Factor Quality of Experience (QoE) products Uses a sophisticated model of the human vision system specifically designed to measure video quality in real time just as a real viewer perceives the quality to be TelcoTV is the telecom industry�s premier event for exploring a comprehensive entertainment convergence strategy. Visit Symmetricom at booth #201. For more information, visit: http://www.telcotvonline.com. 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. SYMM-P