Symmetricom's V-FACTOR® Q-400 Probe Receives Test & Measurement World's 2008 'Best in Test®' Award
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V-FACTOR Offers Complete Quality of Experience (QoE) Solution for Monitoring Video and other Triple Play Services
SAN JOSE, Calif. - February 11, 2008 - Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM) today announced that Test and Measurement World Magazine (www.tmworld.com) selected Symmetricom's V-FACTOR® Q-400 Probe for its 2008 "Best in Test®" Award within the Video Test category. The 2008 Best in Test Awards honor companies that recently introduced new products that offer significant technological advancements in the testing and measurement market.
The V-FACTOR QoE Platform, which includes the Q-400 probe, is a complete quality of experience (QoE) solution that enables rapid identification of symptoms affecting IP-based video, voice and data services in real time, from the core network to the customer premises equipment (CPE). In addition, the audio and video are monitored precisely as the user is experiencing it.
"We are happy to recognize Symmetricom's V-FACTOR® Q-400 Probe as a Best-in-Test winner. With all of the test and measurement products that were released in 2007 to be selected as one of the best is a real honor. We wish Symmetricom good luck as the reader's vote for the Test Product of the Year," said Russ Pratt, publisher, Test & Measurement World.
EVP-GM of Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division David Cox commented, "We're pleased that Test and Measurement World recognizes that our V-FACTOR Q-400 provides superior technological advancements to the market. We're proud to offer a differentiated solution that monitors the performance of any streaming media including HDTV/SDTV, IPTV, VOD, SDV and VoIP, providing cost-effective and scalable end-to-end performance visibility and perceptual video quality assurance for service providers and cable operators worldwide.
"Our V-FACTOR Platform gives service providers and cable operators the monitoring capabilities they need to improve revenue and profit from increased customer satisfaction while lowering technical support costs," Cox added.
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.
Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division provides perceptual video quality monitoring and diagnostic solutions for cable operators, telcos and other CSPs to deliver mission-critical QoE solutions for IP-based services. For more information, visit qoe.symmetricom.com.
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