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Symmetricom Cable Timing Expert Featured Speaker at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2007
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 Jeremy Bennington, business development manager, will be presenting, "M-CMTS: Why It Drives the Need for Synchronization and What Are the Best Practices for Deployment" at the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Cable-Tec Expo 2007 on Thursday, June 21, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. Taking place Tuesday, June 19 through Friday, June 22, 2007, the event gives attendees the opportunity to explore the latest in cable technology, products and services and features more than 10,000 attendees and over 400 exhibitors.
WHO: Jeremy Bennington, Business Development Manager at Symmetricom
WHAT: Presenting, "M-CMTS: Why It Drives the Need for Synchronization and What Are the Best Practices for Deployment" at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2007
WHEN: Thursday, June 21, 2007, 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. EDT and 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EDT
WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, Room 311 E-F
The presentation is part of the workshop session, DOCSIS(R) 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) Technologies & Services. The panel will discuss the emerging DOCSIS 3.0 suite of specifications, including Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS), downstream channel bonding, IPv6 and timing synchronization. The primary emphasis is on network readiness and deployment. Panelists, in addition to Mr. Bennington, include Dan Torbet, principal engineer at ARRIS; Mike Cookish, director, product management at Motorola and Howard Abramson, director, advanced engineering and development at BigBand Networks. Panelists will provide their views on services that could be supported by these technologies.
M-CMTS is a new architecture that enables convergence of the video and data/voice networks used by cable companies. M-CMTS breaks apart the existing CMTS used for data/voice into downstream, upstream and core functions. These functions must remain synchronized in order to facilitate communication amongst them and the cable modems. The breaking apart of these functions allows them to be used for DOCSIS data/voice transmission as well as MPEG and IP video transmission without changes to the set-top box or cable modems. The downstream transmission is embedded in a device called an Edge-QAM instead of being integrated with CMTS. The new M-CMTS architecture enables convergence of the cable networks and dramatically reduces cost. Mr. Bennington's presentation will outline what M-CMTS is and how it works, including why it drives the need for synchronization and what are the best practices for deployment.
Jeremy Bennington is responsible for business development of several next generation synchronization technologies and markets for Symmetricom. His work includes development of the new cable synchronization standard, DOCSIS Timing Interface, and several other synchronization technologies for the broader communication market including IEEE 1588, Synchronous Ethernet and the Universal Timing Interface. Over the past four years, he has served in several capacities in the United States, Europe and Asia developing new markets for synchronization within wireline, wireless and cable telecommunications markets. He has also served as a member of Symmetricom's strategic working group and taken active roles in industry standards bodies including CableLabs(R). He has extensive experience developing and bringing to market software and hardware products for the telecommunications, academic and high-tech consumer product industries domestically and internationally. Prior to Symmetricom, he held various positions at Intel, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) and Purdue University. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Management from Purdue University.
Symmetricom is the developer of the first DOCSIS Timing Interface (DTI) Server qualified by CableLabs, a nonprofit research and development consortium dedicated to helping cable operator members integrate new cable telecommunications technologies into their business objectives. TimeCreator(TM) 1000 is a network time synchronization system specifically designed for cable television communications networks, enabling reliable and precise time and frequency network synchronization that supports new broadband cable services. TimeCreator 1000 will be demonstrated in multiple booths at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, including Harmonic, Inc. (booth #373), Vecima Networks (booth #549), Cisco (booth #865) and BigBand Networks, (booth #2164).
For more information on SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2007, visit: http://expo.scte.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 (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.
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