Technical Communities and Centellax Sign Exclusive Government Services Partnership

Government users, military personnel, and federal contractors now save money when purchasing Centellax test, telecom, and wireless products

SAN BRUNO, CA and SANTA ROSA, CA – March 17, 2009 —Technical Communities, the company technical organizations who sell to the government rely on for proven go-to-market solutions to grow sales, lower costs and reduce risks, announced today a new exclusive government services partnership agreement with Centellax Inc., a manufacturer of low-cost, high-performance, components and test solutions.

The agreement authorizes Technical Communities to distribute Centellax products, including PRBS pattern generators, bit error rate testers (BERT), clock recovery modules and units, clock synthesizers, system power amplifiers, modulator driver modules, band multipliers, amplifier modules, frequent dividers and prescalers. More product information is available at centellax.gsamart.com.

“Government and military agencies are important customers for us. We are excited to offer our low-cost high-performance test equipment through Technical Communities, where we can reach those customers,” said Dr. Julio Perdomo, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Centellax Inc.

“Technical Communities is excited 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 Centellax.”

Centellax 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, gsaadvantage.gov, and the company’s own online marketplaces,gsamart.comtestmart.com, and navicpmart.com.