Symmetricom's President and CEO Joins the Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions' (ATIS) Board of Directors

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 Thomas Steipp, president and CEO, has joined the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS). ATIS is a leading standards development and technical planning organization committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and information technologies industry. "I am pleased to take part in the important work of ATIS,” said Thomas Steipp, president and CEO of Symmetricom. "Because of the pivotal role of synchronization and timing in the reliability of next generation networks, Symmetricom offers a critical perspective on the development of standards that will define future communications architectures and services. In addition, our growing role helping service providers optimize the quality of new services, such as IP-based video, enables us to bring focus to core issues that can be impacted by rapidly evolving standards. Symmetricom has long participated in the definition of key communications standards worldwide, and I look forward to making significant contributions to ATIS.” Mr. Steipp has served as Symmetricom’s CEO since 1998. Prior to joining Symmetricom, Mr. Steipp served as vice president and general manager of Broadband Data Networks, a division of Scientific-Atlanta. About ATIS ATIS is a leading standards development and technical planning organization committed to rapidly developing and promoting technical and operations standards for the communications and related information technologies industry worldwide using a pragmatic, flexible and open approach. Participants from more than 300 communications companies are active in ATIS’ 22 industry committees, Incubator Solutions Program, and other activities. For more information about ATIS, please visit www.atis.org or contact Erin Barlow at (202) 434-8851 or ebarlow@atis.org. 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.