Here's some news that caught my eye this morning. I'm dashing out the door to a seminar, so I'll put all the interesting releases in one post and leave you to explore at your leisure this morning.

First SPIRIT DSP

Plustek selects SPIRIT's VoIP Conferencing solution

MOSCOW, Russia - April 24, 2008 - SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of voice and video software engines, announced today that Plustek, a Taiwanese manufacturer of telecommunication equipment for enterprises, has licensed its TeamSpirit® 3.0 Conferencing Engine as the core for its corporate conferencing system Plus@com PC2000.

The Plus@com PC2000 combines instant interactive communication functions with live video. Plus@com delivers whole corporate coverage with the flexibility and reliability to support multifunction applications, such as instant messaging, real-time audio-and-video meetings, call transfer, chatting, data sharing and more.

SPIRIT Conferencing Engine is the best choice to build VoIP-based conferencing systems with high voice quality. The technology may be used to arrange conferencing sessions counting dozens to thousands of participants. The engine comprises a set of modules and interfaces meeting development requirements for both rapid integration and flexible control.

"SPIRIT enables application developers and equipment makers to create reliable multipoint conferencing systems. We are glad Plustek has appreciated the high performance and scalability of our solutions," stated Alex Kravchenko, VP Sales of SPIRIT. "With continuous wins from numerous mobile OEMs, SPIRIT remains the strongest provider of embedded voice and video products in the enterprise segment."

Webber Tseng, Product Manager of Plustek mentioned, "With SPIRIT's conferencing solution, our product will allow companies to instantly launch secure interactive online meetings from PC to PC with unprecedented speed and quality. The remarkable functionality and the ease of integration of SPIRIT's products permit us to provide our business customers with an optimal conferencing solution exactly when they need it - today."

About SPIRIT
SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years, SPIRIT's focus has been on voice and video communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima, ARM, Atmel, Blizzard Entertainment, BT plc., Cisco, Compal, deltathree, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Importek, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Reigncom, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Trinity Convergence and Veraz, and among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

TeamSpirit is a registered trademark and IP-MR is a trademark of SPIRIT DSP. All other trademarks and/or registered trademarks are registered to their respective owners.
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Symmetricom Realigns to Better Serve Core and Growth Markets
Leverages Synergies and Brings Additional Operational Efficiencies to Organization by Combining Telecom Solutions and Quality of Experience Assurance Divisions

SAN JOSE, Calif. - April 24, 2008 - Symmetricom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMM) today announced it is streamlining certain complementary solutions into a single division to better serve and leverage sales opportunities in its core telco, cable and wireless markets. The combination of the Telecom Solutions (TSD) and Quality of Experience (QoE) Assurance divisions will leverage technology, product and sales synergies and be led by current TSD Executive Vice President and General Manager James Armstrong.

Symmetricom's President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Steipp commented, "As virtually all communication service providers migrate to IP and next generation networks to support the enormous growth that is anticipated in video, voice, and data services, they look to industry leaders like Symmetricom for the most cost-effective and innovative solutions. This new approach simplifies how we work with telecom and cable customers in order to more broadly address their needs to ensure the performance and availability of core networks as well as the interoperability of next generation applications."

Timing and synchronization go hand-in-hand with quality assurance in next generation communication networks that deliver advanced video, telephony, mobile and wireless services. Symmetricom's timing and synchronization products continue to play a critical role in advancing the deployment of these new services and the addition of video quality monitoring solutions enable the company to more quickly and deeply penetrate core target markets.

"We recognize that more and more of our customers value comprehensive solutions that we deliver which range from enabling technologies such as timing to service assurance products such as video quality monitoring," said Paul Chermak, executive vice president, global sales and support for Symmetricom. "We see new market opportunities rapidly emerging and with the full breadth of the mission-critical solutions that we offer, our customers are able to realize immediate value across multiple next generation services."

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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Aerohive Networks Introduces 802.11n Product Portfolio
Controller-less Architecture and Smart PoE Technology Accelerate Migration to 802.11n; Dual Homing, Ethernet Aggregation Increases Resiliency, Bandwidth

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 24, 2008 - Aerohive Networks, creators of the "cooperative control" wireless LAN (WLAN) access point (HiveAP), today announced a portfolio of 802.11n HiveAPs. The portfolio includes the attractively designed dual-radio HiveAP 320 for indoor use, the metal-chassis dual-radio HiveAP 340 for indoor-industrial use, and the waterproof three-radio HiveAP 380 for outdoor use. Each product has two Gigabit Ethernet ports that provide power-over-Ethernet (PoE) using Aerohive's patent-pending Smart PoE technology. Aerohive's cooperative control architecture eliminates the need for costly centralised network controllers, enabling Aerohive to provide a resilient 802.11n solution for the cost of most vendors' 802.11g solutions. More information about the new products and the company's cooperative control wireless LAN architecture is available at www.aerohive.com.

Cooperative Control Unlocks the Power of 802.11n

Aerohive's controller-less wireless LAN architecture is ideal for 802.11n networks because it eliminates the need to deploy the expensive, high-capacity controllers that are required to handle the increased throughput of 802.11n. Removing controllers from the network also eliminates the bandwidth bottlenecks, latency, and jitter that result from backhauling traffic through a controller. Resiliency is also increased when the single points of failure found in controller-based architectures are eliminated. The result is a scalable wireless LAN that can support high-performance, mission-critical applications.

"The wireless LAN in our Emergency Room environment runs mission-critical applications," said John Gaede, director, information systems, El Centro Regional Medical Center. "We evaluated three other leading WLAN vendors and chose Aerohive for our .11n deployment because of the Aerohive architecture's benefits of scale, resiliency, and ease-of-use. Of all the systems we evaluated, Aerohive also had the best performance, the least packet loss, and the best coverage. Cooperative control is the wireless LAN architecture of the future."

"The problems generally associated with centralised network controllers
- cost, capacity, performance, and availability - are exacerbated in an 802.11n environment," said David Flynn, chief executive officer, Aerohive. "By contrast, the benefits of our unique, controller-less architecture become even more apparent in 802.11n deployments. Every organisation interested in 802.11n needs to reconsider their WLAN architecture, and when they do, they will see the compelling advantages of Aerohive's cooperative control architecture."

Cooperative Control, Smart PoE Technology Accelerates Migration to 802.11n

The Aerohive cooperative control architecture makes it easy for enterprises to upgrade their wireless access points to 802.11n on an as-needed basis. Aerohive 802.11n HiveAPs may be seamlessly deployed along with 802.11a/b/g HiveAPs. Aerohive also enables easy migration to 802.11n from autonomous or "fat" access points. If 802.11n HiveAPs are deployed on the same subnet or VLAN as an enterprise's fat access points, network users can even roam between the HiveAPs and their old fat access points, which is often not possible with controller-based 802.11n deployments.

The new HiveAPs also facilitate the transition to 802.11n by providing flexible support for legacy network switches. Aerohive's Smart PoE technology automatically detects the level of Power over Ethernet (PoE) being delivered by the connected switches. Most legacy switches can provide a HiveAP with full power via a single 802.3af PoE connection. If required, HiveAP services can be automatically reduced to fit within the delivered power envelope.

When the HiveAP's dual gigabit Ethernet ports are connected to two PoE ports, the HiveAP is always fully powered. If the HiveAP is connected to two separate switches, it can optionally support dual homing for increased resiliency. If the HiveAP is connected to two ports on the same switch, the HiveAP provides Ethernet link aggregation for increased bandwidth if the switch supports link aggregation. A single PoE+ or 802.3at connection will also fully power a HiveAP. When two PoE+ connections are available, the HiveAP will also support redundant power and data resiliency.

Resilient 802.11n for the Price of Other Vendors' 802.11g

Aerohive's resilient 802.11n wireless LAN solutions cost approximately the same as competitors' 802.11a/b/g resilient solutions. The Aerohive cooperative control architecture, with its inherent resiliency, eliminates the need for costly network controllers and backup controllers. In addition, critical features, such as wireless mesh capability, security, and QoS, which are commonly separately licensed, are included in HiveAPs at no additional charge. Aerohive's 802.11n HiveAPs are priced approximately the same as competitors' 802.11n access points. As a result, solutions that require network controllers will nearly always be more expensive, often 200%-300% more expensive, than an Aerohive controller-less solution.

Pricing and Availability

The HiveAP 320 indoor access point and HiveAP 340 indoor-industrial access point will both be available in July. The HiveAP 380 outdoor access point will be available in the fourth quarter of 2008.

About Aerohive Networks
Aerohive Networks' cooperative control enterprise wireless LAN architecture provides all the management, mobility, and security of controller-based architectures without the cost, capacity, performance, and availability issues associated with controller deployments. The architecture also scales easily to support 802.11n. In addition, Aerohive solutions provide the reliability and scalability necessary for mission-critical networks and are optimized for voice over wireless LAN
(VoWLAN) applications. Aerohive was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. The company's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Northern Light Venture Capital.