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, announced Paul Chermak has joined the company as Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Support. Chermak will report to Thomas Steipp, president and CEO.

Chermak is an innovative sales and marketing executive who brings experience in strategic accounts, and international markets for both hardware and software sales. Most recently, Chermak was SVP and GM of the High Technology Group at I2 Technologies, where he was heavily focused on upgrading the companys installed base of software customers. From 2003 through 2006, Chermak served as Managing Director, International for ITM Software, where he managed the development of international partnerships and customers in Asia, Canada and Europe. Previously, Chermak was VP Application Solutions Group at Silicon Graphics and held increasingly responsible sales and marketing positions at Hewlett-Packard between 1972 and 1999.

“We are very pleased to welcome Paul to our executive team,” said Thomas Steipp, president and CEO of Symmetricom. “Pauls success in developing and upgrading major accounts, coupled with his expertise in enterprise software sales fits extremely well with the strategic objectives for our largest accounts. His experience will also be valuable as Quality of Experience (QoE) software becomes a more important component of our business and our prospective growth opportunities.”

“I am extremely delighted to join the Symmetricom team,” said Paul Chermak, EVP, Global Sales and Support. “I am looking forward to helping the company step up its focus on international growth, deepen its expertise as a Trusted Advisor and bring to market the new capabilities of the QAD Division in order to deliver exceptional Video to homes throughout the world. It is my pleasure to be a part of an exciting next generation of Symmetricom solutions."

Chermak was COO of a privately held executive strategic consulting firm in Silicon Valley and has served on the board of multiple organizations, including Wise Media Technology, SGI Japan and Dunwoody Institute. Chermak holds a B.A. in Geo-Chemical Engineering from Gustavus Adolphus and an MBA in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.

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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