**EXHIBIT31.1**

**CERTIFICATION OF PERIODIC REPORTPURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002**

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

1.                                       Ihave reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of the Company (the “Report”);

2.                                       Basedon my knowledge, the Report does not contain any untrue statement of a materialfact or 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’s other certifying officerand I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for theCompany and we have:

(a)                                  Designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries,is made known to us by others within these entities, particularly during theperiod in which the Report is being prepared;

(b)                                 Evaluatedthe effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures andpresented in the Report our conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by theReport based on such evaluation; and

(c)                                  Disclosedin the 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, 2006) that has materially affected, or is reasonablylikely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financialreporting; and

5.                      The Company’s other certifying officerand I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal controlover financial reporting, to the Company’s auditors and to the Audit Committeeof the Board of Directors:

(a)                                  Allsignificant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the design or operation ofinternal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely toadversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and reportfinancial information; and

(b)                                 Anyfraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees whohave a significant role in the Company’s internal control over financialreporting.
|        | /s/ RICHARD N.  SNYDER   |   |
|--------|--------------------------|--------|
|   | Richard N.  Snyder       |
|   | Chief Executive  Officer |
|   | December 15,  2006       |

 

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