SaskTel Selects Symmetricom's Next Generation Time and Frequency Solutions for Network-Wide Upgrade

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(EON:Enhanced Online News)--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 SaskTel has selected Symmetricom’s next generation time and frequency solutions for a network-wide synchronization upgrade. SaskTel, one of Canada's most progressive full service communications companies, will equip its offices throughout Saskatchewan to support next generation services including IPTV, VoIP and 3G wireless. SaskTel will source Symmetricom’s products, engineering services and ongoing support from Empowered Networks, a leading solutions integrator and Symmetricom’s key partner in Canada.

“Additionally, SaskTel will have access to powerful management capabilities, maximizing network performance and quality of service via Symmetricom’s SSU-2000, an intelligent, fully manageable Synchronization Supply Unit used for telecom network operators to generate and distribute superior synchronization signals for advanced network services.”

“SaskTel recognizes the importance of timing in the network and we are taking critical steps to support delivery of the next generation of world-class products and services to our customers,” said Kym Wittal, SaskTel’s chief technology officer. “Symmetricom’s next-generation synchronization and timing products will play a key role in supporting our Next Generation Access Infrastructure, and helping us converge business and consumer services onto a single next generation IP infrastructure.”

High quality time and frequency alignment is an essential network infrastructure component that facilitates the reliable transmission of voice, video and data.

“This network-wide upgrade will help SaskTel to continue to deliver the highest quality of service for its full slate of converged service offerings – everything from high definition TV to VPN to VOIP,” commented Nancy Shemwell, executive vice president, global sales and service at Symmetricom. “Additionally, SaskTel will have access to powerful management capabilities, maximizing network performance and quality of service via Symmetricom’s SSU-2000, an intelligent, fully manageable Synchronization Supply Unit used for telecom network operators to generate and distribute superior synchronization signals for advanced network services.”

“SaskTel awarded this network-wide upgrade project based on ease of integration and flexibility of Symmetricom’s SSU-2000 product family, and Empowered’s engineering and ongoing support services,” commented Glen Emo, chief executive officer of Empowered Networks. “Empowered will play an active and ongoing role in ensuring successful implementation and cutover to the SSU-2000 platform as part of its Next Generation Access Initiative.”

The partnership between Symmetricom and Empowered Networks simplifies and optimizes the management of next generation networks, combining market-leading time and frequency solutions with the management of development, testing, deployment, operations and ongoing optimization throughout the lifecycle of IT projects, reducing costs, improving service and generating revenue for customers.

About SaskTel

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel) is the leading full service communications provider in Saskatchewan, offering competitive voice, data, dial-up and high speed internet, entertainment and multimedia services, security, web hosting, text and messaging services, and cellular and wireless data services over its digital networks. The Corporation also provides security monitoring services through SecurTek, directory services through DirectWest, in-room communications services to the healthcare sector through Hospitality Network, telecommunications consulting service through SaskTel International and an out-of-province sales and service channel in Alberta and British Columbia. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 5,100 full-time, part-time and temporary employees. Visit SaskTel at www.sasktel.com.

About Empowered Networks^®

Empowered Networks^® is a leading independent solutions integrator. Empowered simplifies and optimizes the test and management of next-generation IT, networks and applications by combining market-leading solutions from trusted partners with a comprehensive family of EmpoweredServices^™. Empowered has earned the trust of many leading organizations in Canada by implementing modular, high value solutions for over 300 customers, including Canada's leading IT-dependent enterprises, communication service providers and network equipment manufacturers. Empowered is a privately-held Canadian company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with offices in Moncton, Montréal, Ottawa, Waterloo, Calgary, and Vancouver. For more information, visit www.empowerednetworks.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.

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