Moscow, ID – March 31, 2006 – Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., will be presenting a tutorial titled “Maximizing Bandwidth Efficiency for Storage Area Networks” at the Storage Networking World Conference. The conference is hosted by Computerworld in partnership with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and will be held April 3-6 in San Diego, California. Storage Networking World is the leading conference for IT and storage professionals to learn more about the challenges in today’s business environments and the solutions available to meet and overcome these challenges.

The tutorial presented by Comtech AHA will educate participants on the benefits of implementing lossless data compression and capacity optimized storage for greater bandwidth efficiency on the Storage Area Networks (SANs). A discussion will be held on the fundamentals of LZ1-based compression algorithms and capacity optimized storage solutions and how these technologies are applied to further reduce media consumption associated with today’s backup and recovery practices. Presentation participants will gain an understanding of various compression and capacity optimized storage solutions and the benefits and limitations of each technology.

Comtech AHA has been developing lossless data compression solutions for over 15 years and offers a wide range of compression products including integrated circuits, PCI-X boards, and intellectual property cores. Comtech AHA’s newest compression technology implements the open standard compression algorithm GZIP. The AHA362-PCIX compression/decompression accelerator is a half-height, short PCI-X card with data throughput of over 3.0 Gbps. The AHA362-PCIX was developed to increase the data transfer rates in applications such as storage area networks, web servers, web accelerators and web traffic appliances including load balancers, firewall VPN servers and integrated routers/switches.

Session details:

· Thursday, April 6, 10:20-11:05 am PST – “Maximizing Bandwidth Efficiency for Storage Area Networks” by Sean Gettmann: visit http://www.snwusa.com for more details.