Symmetricom Promotes James Armstrong to Executive Vice President and General Manager of Telecom Solutions Division

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 that James Armstrong has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of the company’s Telecom Solutions Division. Armstrong joined Symmetricom in 2006 as vice president of engineering for the division. "During James’ tenure at Symmetricom, he has demonstrated leadership in acquiring new engineering capabilities, served as a key participant in developing and implementing our strategic plans for growth and most recently was instrumental in the launch of our new office in Beijing, China,” commented Thomas Steipp, president and CEO of Symmetricom. Prior to joining Symmetricom, Armstrong was president of Movidis, Inc., a privately held company that develops high-performance networking equipment for OEM and enterprise markets. From 1998-2002, he served as vice president of software development at DIVA Systems, a provider of interactive, on-demand television products and services. Prior to that, he was manager of software and advanced development at Sarnoff Real-Time Corporation, commercializing video server technology developed at Sarnoff Corporation. He managed the software development of three generations of video-on-demand servers that were deployed to several major US cable companies. Armstrong holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. "As service providers move to transition applications to packet-based next generation networks, synchronization and timing plays an even more critical role in successfully delivering these services to the consumer with the expected quality of service,” commented Armstrong. 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.