Symmetricom QoE Assurance Division's Principal Technologist Presents 'Measuring Quality of Experience for Video Services' at SMPTE and VSF 2008 Joint Conference Feb. 11, 2008

Business Wire, Feb 5, 2008

Dr. Stefan Winkler to Speak on Quality of Experience (QoE) - An Important Measure of Success for IP-Based Video Services

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYMM), today announced that Dr. Stefan Winkler, principal technologist for Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division, is presenting his paper, "Measuring Quality of Experience for Video Services," at the SMPTE and VSF 2008 Joint Conference taking place February 10-13, 2008 in Houston, TX.

The SMPTE and VSF Joint Conference is three days of informative technical sessions on the latest technologies, including digital content quality, acquisition and distribution, issues on IPTV, as well as hot topics such as streaming media and podcasting.

Dr. Winkler's presentation is part of the session, "IPTV to the Home Network and Metadata Challenges, Case Studies, and Solutions." This session explores networking and metadata for IPTV-to-the-home, presents a case study, and finally looks at measuring the results in terms of the Quality of Experience of the home viewer. This session is for anyone wanting an update on IPTV-to-the-home.

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One of the world's top experts in digital media quality, Dr. Winkler serves as a principal technologist at Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division. He was formerly chief scientist and co-founder of Genista Corporation, a provider of quality assurance solutions for IPTV and mobile media. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, German Aerospace and Andersen Consulting. Dr. Winkler has published more than 40 papers on perceptual quality measurement and is the author of the book, "Digital Video Quality." He has also been a member and contributor of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since its founding in 1997. Dr. Winkler holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria and a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division provides perceptual video quality monitoring and diagnostic solutions for cable operators, telcos and other CSPs to deliver mission- critical QoE solutions for IP-based switched digital video services. For more information, visit http://qoe.symmetricom.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.