Symmetricom Principal Technologist Featured Speaker at 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2007

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 Dr. Stefan Winkler, principal technologist for Symmetricom’s QoE Assurance Division, will present "Video Quality and Beyond” at the 15th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 in Poznan, Poland. The lecture is part of the session, "Quality Evaluation in Image and Video Processing,” chaired by Paulo Lobato Correia, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. Taking place September 3-7, 2007, EUSIPCO 2007 is the fifteenth conference promoted by EURASIP, the European Association for Signal Processing, and will cover all aspects of signal processing theory and applications. WHO: Dr. Stefan Winkler, Principal Technologist, Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division WHAT: Presenting "Video Quality and Beyond" at EUSIPCO 2007 WHEN: Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 15:10 CEST WHERE: Conference Center at Poznan International Fair, Poznan, Poland, Building 14A, Second Floor Dr. Winkler’s presentation will provide an overview of the current state of video quality metrics, discussing the achievements as well as shortcomings, and will also summarize the main standardization efforts by the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG). The presentation will then look at recent trends and developments in video quality research, in particular the emergence of new generations of quality metrics, compared to those focused on compression artifacts, including comprehensive audiovisual quality measurement. One of the world’s top experts in digital media quality measurement, Dr. Winkler was formerly chief scientist and co-founder of Genista Corporation, a provider of quality assurance solutions for IPTV and mobile media. He has also held assistant professor positions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, German Aerospace and Andersen Consulting. Dr. Winkler has published more than 40 papers on perceptual quality measurement and is the author of the book, "Digital Video Quality”. He has also been a member and contributor of the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) since its foundation in 1997. Dr. Winkler holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria and a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. For more information on EUSIPCO 2007, visit: http://www.eusipco2007.org/. 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 (PTP, or IEEE 1588), and others that support the migration to next generation networks. Symmetricom is based in San Jose, Calif., with offices worldwide. For more information, visit http://qoe.symmetricom.com.