Symmetricom Announces National Seminar Series On Intelligent Synchronization.

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 2001

Company Takes to the Road to Demonstrate How to Drive Down Costs,

Improve Efficiency, and Maximize Resources Through

Intelligent Network Sync

Symmetricom, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYMM) today announced the company will be touring the U.S. to conduct seminars that educate telecom professionals about the benefits of implementing Intelligent Synchronization Network Elements (ISNE). The series of free educational seminars and live product demos will provide network managers an opportunity to understand how intelligent synchronization can lead to improved reliability, quality of service and reduced maintenance costs. Symmetricom will specifically focus on providing one-on-one meeting opportunities so that network managers can interact directly with the product management team led by Eduardo Inzunza, vice president of sync marketing at Symmetricom. The tour kicks-off this month in Tulsa, Oklahoma with additional dates in Denver, Kansas City, Montreal, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and others in the first quarter of 2002.

For the first time, Symmetricom will demonstrate its entire intelligent synchronization suite of products and professional services that empowers network managers to monitor the interaction and performance of their synchronization components from a remote location, ensuring that performance remains at optimal levels. The ISNE product suite includes Symmetricom's TimePictra, a Web-based multi-vendor sync management platform, which manages Symmetricom's TimeSource Primary Reference Source, the TimeHub sync distribution system, as well as sync products from other vendors. In addition, Symmetricom offers global professional services for sync network planning, training, installation, and maintenance.

"Through this tour, we want to explain the value of intelligence within the network, and at the network's edge, and how intelligent synchronization increases efficiency of networks and can be implemented seamlessly," said Inzunza. "Ultimately, it is synchronization that is crucial in providing high-quality service, and often it is the most overlooked element of ongoing network build-out."

Synchronization is critical for the delivery of all network traffic, whether wireline or wireless, and ensures that "five nines" quality of service (QoS) continues to be met as carriers migrate their global networks from traditional circuit-switched systems to IP and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) packet networks. As business and residential users increasingly rely on broadband access and services such as integrated voice and data, the need for carrier-class synchronization continues to move to the network edge.

Symmetricom's TimePictra sync network management system is unique because of its ability to manage synchronization elements from multiple vendors. Using TimePictra's Web-based sync management platform, network managers can monitor each sync component within the network such as TimeSource, which provides an individual timing source at each central office and network edge facility, and TimeHub, which distributes synchronization signals to all the switching, SONET, and broadband equipment within the central office. By deploying Symmetricom's intelligent system, global service providers can upgrade and manage their networks while avoiding the crippling capital expenditure of replacing their existing equipment and deploying thousands of technicians to manage equipment in the field.

About Symmetricom, Inc.

Symmetricom(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:SYMM) makes wireline and wireless communication possible for businesses and consumers, improving global network traffic and increasing the value of the copper telephone wire infrastructure. The company's intelligent synchronization products are essential for the transmission of voice, data and video over any network, and the company's broadband products extend the reach and bandwidth of broadband services from the Internet backbone over the "last mile." Symmetricom helps maximize the deliverable bandwidth over the copper telephone wire infrastructure, eliminating the distance barriers for the consumer market and the cost barriers in the business market for value-added broadband services. Symmetricom's customers include the world's largest carriers and service providers. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information visit www.symmetricom.com.

Safe Harbor 

This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is subject to the safe harbor created by those Sections. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning product features and performance. Other factors and risks that could impact the company are detailed from time to time in Symmetricom's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2001 and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2001. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Symmetricom disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.