Symmetricom Announces PCI Express Time and Frequency Processor Cards

Symmetricom Precision Bus Level Timing Cards Provide PCI Express Support and
Fast, Easy Integration into Custom Applications via Full-Featured Software
Development Kits
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
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 two PCI Express (PCIe) time and
frequency computer plug-in cards. The bc635PCIe and the GPS synchronized
bc637PCIe bring unparalleled precise time and frequency functions to the latest
computers and servers equipped with PCIe bus technology. These PCIe timing cards
provide an optimum solution for customers with time sensitive applications in
the aerospace, defense, power utility and financial industries for combining
precise timing with their application specific systems. Microsecond accurate
timing synchronized across multiple computers enhances measurement capabilities
and enables distributed applications to work in concert and in real time as well
as improve the post-processing correlation of collected data.

These low profile PCIe timing cards include industry leading software
development kits (SDKs) and drivers for Windows, Linux and Solaris that enable
quick and easy integration into custom systems. Never before has such broad
software support been bundled with the wide range of timing features found in
the bc635PCIe and bc637PCIe cards. The result is a comprehensive bus level
timing solution enabling customers to efficiently integrate timing technology
into their systems with a minimum investment of effort.

"These latest time and frequency processor cards are keeping pace with the
computer and server industry by providing PCI Express interface support, and
they excel at saving our customers time and money when adding timing technology
to their systems, " commented Paul Skoog, product marketing manager for
Symmetricom. "Our full-featured, easy-to-use software development kits included
with the cards enable programmers to integrate timing technology into their
systems efficiently while leveraging Symmetricom`s extensive timing expertise."

New capabilities of the PCI Express time and frequency processor cards include:

* Precision Time Stamps - provided on demand at extremely fast rates with low
latency
* Easy PCIe Card Integration - the comprehensive software development kits,
included standard with the product, make it extremely easy to integrate the bus
cards into custom applications with 32/64-bit Windows and Linux and 64-bit
Solaris
* PCI Express Support - provides support for the low profile PCIe bus interface,
the computer expansion card standard replacing older PCI and PCI-X standards
* Extensive Time Code Generation and Translation - IRIG A, B, G, E, IEEE 1344,
NASA 36, XR3 or 2137 formats supported to address a variety of timing
requirements common to aerospace, defense and power utility applications
* Industry Leading User Interface and Documentation - extremely easy to use
software interface and easy to follow documentation speed integration
* Easy Predecessor Migration - customer applications written around earlier
bc635/637PCI cards can quickly and easily migrate to the new bc635/637PCIe
cards; in most cases, as easy as plug-and-play compatibility

Versatile and highly reliable, Symmetricom`s bus level timing cards deliver
extremely precise and accurate time for government, aerospace and financial
applications that require tight integration between precise time and frequency
functions and the application software on the host computer.

Availability

The PCI Express time and frequency processor cards will be available December 1,
2009.

For more information, visit:
http://www.symmetricom.com/products/bus-level-timing/pci-express/.

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, 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), IEEE 1588 (Precision Time Protocol), and others supporting the world`s
migration to Next Generation Networks (NGN). Symmetricom`s QoE video quality
management solutions provide the tools necessary to accurately monitor and
analyze video quality and bring higher satisfaction levels to the end user.
Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more
information, visit http://www.symmetricom.com.

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Raychel Marcotte, 617-645-6022
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or
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Tracy Shriver, 707-636-1908
tshriver@symmetricom.com

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