Technical Communities and Absolute Analysis Sign Exclusive Government Services Partnership

Partnership helps government users, military personnel, and federal contractors save taxpayer money when buying technical equipment

SAN BRUNO, CA and NEWBURY PARK, CA, JANUARY 14, 2008 — Absolute Analysis, a leader in protocol test tools, announced today a new exclusive government services partnership agreement with Technical Communities, the premier one-stop service solution for technical organizations that sell to U.S. government agencies, military organizations, and prime federal contractors. Technical Communities is the owner and operator of GSAMart, TestMart, NAVICPMart and EurekaSpot.

Under the agreement Technical Communities will market and promote the Absolute Analysis range of protocol test tools that include Protocol Analyzers, Traffic Generators and BERT devices for several communication technologies including Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Serial FPDP, AFDX, SAS and SATA.

“Our Investigator product range offers extraordinary performance and value in a wide variety of government programs, particularly for applications where the protocol specifications are confidential” said Dennis Murphy, CEO, Absolute Analysis, “The addition of Technical Communities to the Absolute Analysis distribution network allows us to broaden our coverage of the federal government marketplace and simplify the purchasing process for our federal customers”.

“Including Absolute Analysis in the Technical Communities offering provides us with the opportunity to offer the federal government an even broader array of high quality technical products,” said Peter Ostrow, President and CEO of Technical Communities. “Our goal is to continue to optimize the GSA buying and selling experience for organizations such as Absolute Analysis.”

Absolute Analysis products are under General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) managed by Technical Communities, which will provide content, transaction, marketing, sales support, and reporting services around them. Technical Communities also will provide presentation and order processing through the GSA’s e-commerce web site, www.gsaadvantage.gov, and the company’s own online marketplaces,www.gsamart.comwww.testmart.comwww.navicpmart.com and www.eurekaspot.com.