**EXHIBIT 31.1**

 

**CERTIFICATION OF PERIODIC REPORT**

#### **PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACTOF 2002**

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I, the undersignedRichard N. Snyder, Chief Executive Officer, of Forgent Networks, Inc. (the“Company”), certify that:

 

1.                                       I have reviewedthis quarterly report on Form 10-Q of the Company (the “Report”);

 

2.                                       Based on myknowledge, the Report does not contain any untrue statement of a material factor omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, inlight of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by the Report;

 

3.                                       Based on my knowledge, the financialstatements, and other financial information included in the Report, fairlypresent in all material respects the financial condition, results of operationsand cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in theReport;

 

4.                                       The Company’sother certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintainingdisclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and15d-15(e)) for the Company and we have:

 

(a)                                  Designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material informationrelating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made knownto us by others within these entities, particularly during the period in whichthe Report is being prepared;

 

(b)                                 Evaluated theeffectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presentedin the Report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by the Reportbased on such evaluation; and

 

(c)                                  Disclosed inthe Report any change in the Company’s internal control over financialreporting that occurred during the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter (thequarter ended October 31, 2007) that has materially affected, or isreasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control overfinancial reporting; and

 

5.                                       The Company’sother certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recentevaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the Company’sauditors and to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors:

 

(a)                                  All significantdeficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financialinformation; and

 

(b)                                 Any fraud,whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 
|   | /s/  RICHARD N. SNYDER   |   |
|--------|--------------------------|--------|
|   | Richard N. Snyder        |
|   | Chief  Executive Officer |
|   | December 17,  2007  |

 

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