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AHA363-PCIe GZIP Compression Card Selected by Verio for Data Storage

Moscow, Idaho - November 18, 2008 - Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL), today announced that Verio, an NTT Communications Company, selected its AHA363-PCIe GZIP compression card, which effectively compresses data on their storage appliances to reduce disk requirements.

“Verio selected the AHA compression card because it allows us to increase the capacity of our backup infrastructure with no increase in server count or datacenter space. Testing during initial trials showed Verio was able to reduce its content to 38 percent of its original size (compression ratio of 2.6:1),” said Fred Martin, vice president of operations, Verio. “Having this technology available in the market today has helped Verio to save thousands of dollars in capital and operational expenses by freeing up storage space and enabling a longer life-span on our drives and servers.”

The AHA363-PCle card offers many advantages over software-based compression solutions. It is faster, offers lower latencies and requires less power to perform the compression function than other options. The AHA363-PCle offloads the data compression task from the core CPUs, thus freeing up resources for other tasks, while significantly reducing power consumption.

The system is based on Comtech AHA’s AHA3610 design - the industry’s first-ever GZIP compression and decompression integrated circuit (IC) - which offers up to 2.5 Gbits/sec throughput via hardware, while also giving significant power savings over GZIP software compression.

Based on the Open Standard GZIP Data Compression Algorithm, the AHA363-PCle supports compression throughput at 5.0 Gbps using an industry standard X4 lane PCI-Express Interface.

Product features

3.6:1 Canterbury corpus compression ratio
Full GZIP algorithm compliance
x4 PCI Express Interface
Uses 2 AHA3610 IC’s
5.0 Gb/sec uncompressed throughput
Efficient scatter gather DMA
Single stream or intermixed streams
Software drivers and source code
Linux and Windows reference drivers

Availability
The AHA363-PCle is available in production today.

More information may be obtained by contacting Comtech AHA by telephone 208-892-5600 or via e-mail at sales@aha.com.

About Comtech AHA
Comtech AHA Corporation develops and markets application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), boards, and intellectual property core technology for communications systems architects worldwide. Comtech AHA provides flexible, cost-effective solutions for today’s growing bandwidth and reliability challenges. Located in Moscow, Idaho, Comtech AHA has been providing leading edge Forward Error Correction and Lossless Data Compression technology for more than twenty years and offers a variety of standard and custom IC solutions for the data communications industry. Comtech AHA Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL). For more information, please visit www.aha.com.

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