[June 15, 2007] Symmetricom purchases technologies from Genista Tweet (Telecomworldwire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Symmetricom Inc (Nasdaq:SYMM), a provider of precise time and frequency products and services, announced on Thursday (14 June) that the company has purchased certain technology assets from Genista Corporation, a provider of software-based technologies. This acquisition will reportedly extend Symmetricom's End-to-End Quality of Experience (QoE) Monitoring Solution for CSPs that are deploying triple and quad play services. With the acquisition Symmetricom will be able to offer CSPs, systems integrators and content providers a broader set of performance-measurement tools to monitor the quality of IPTV, TV over IP, Video on Demand and other IP-based multimedia services. The company said that Stefan Winkler, chief scientist and a co-founder of Genista, will become the chief scientist of Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division. Financial details of the acquisition were not available. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) Copyright 2007 M2 Communications Ltd. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]