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For more information, please visit
the F5 Networks website at:
http://www.

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TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than
25 countries .

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TI's role as a
premier high-performance analog supplier is a result of knowledgeable and
innovative analog specialists, combined with the company's manufacturing
muscle and advanced process technology capabilities.
Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN. (NASDAQ:CMTL).

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Listed Among Finalists for Company of the Year - Large and Ultimate Products
of the Year: Analog ICs, Logic + Programmable Logic and Power

DALLAS, EE Times' distinguished Review Committee
for the ACE Awards selected Texas Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) as
a finalist for Company of the Year - Large, in addition to reader selections
for the Ultimate Products of the Year in the Analog ICs, Logic + Programmable
Logic and Power categories. More than 1,000 engineers participated in the voting
process. provides an option for an integrated Comtech AHA
Corporation AHA361-PCIX GZIP compression board in the F5 BIG-IP 6800
and BIG-IP 6400 products. Using the open standard
compression algorithm GZIP, the AHA361-PCIX Internet protocol
accelerator supports data transfer rates up to 2. "Our HTTP compression hardware has low
latency and provides the highest throughput data rate of any hardware
on the market.aha.com

Forward Looking Statements

Certain information in this press release contains statements that
are forward-looking in nature and involve certain significant risks
and uncertainties.

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Five TI products were nominated for the Ultimate Products of the Year --
one in the Analog IC category, one in the Logic + Programmable Logic category
and three in the Power category. The company has
more analog field specialists than any other supplier, with supporting tools
and documentation to make analog design easier and faster.

About AHA

Comtech AHA Corporation develops and markets superior integrated
circuits and intellectual property core technology for communications
systems architects worldwide.

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With more than 35 years in the logic industry, TI remains committed to the
logic market with the broadest portfolio available and the continued
development of innovative logic technologies, such as signal switches, level
translation and advanced packaging. The integration of hardware compression allows
F5's customers to cost effectively remove the load of the compression
function from their servers, speed application performance, and
improve application response times.

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More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http: //www.

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TI was chosen as a finalist in the Company of the Year category based on
its proven track record in technical excellence, professionalism, staff
development and retention, customer focus and profitable growth. TI leverages its analog
and digital system expertise and manufacturing capabilities to provide high-
performance, discrete and integrated power management solutions to fit any
portable, line-powered, isolated or non-isolated power design challenge --
from cell phones and PDAs to telecom, industrial and computing applications. Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

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Texas Instruments Chosen as EE Times ACE Award Finalist in Four Categories

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements., AHA has been setting the standard in
Forward Error Correction and Lossless Data Compression technology for
more than a decade and offers a variety of standard and custom IC
solutions for the data communications industry.

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TI's portfolio of data converters,
amplifiers, power management and interface products for high-performance and
low-power applications is among the industry's strongest . It is the ultimate goal of TI to provide
its customer base with unparalleled value and peace of mind in the commodity
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"F5 chose AHA as our hardware compression vendor because they
offered the compression throughput we needed at an attractive price,"
said Jason Needham, Director of Product Management at F5 Networks. Ideal for manufacturers of storage area network servers, web
servers, web accelerators and web traffic appliances including load
balancers , firewall VPN servers and integrated routers/switches, the
AHA361-PCIX will improve the speed or performance for nearly any
system. Comtech AHA
Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications
Corp.

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Securities and Exchange Commission filings identify many such risks
and uncertainties.

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The inaugural EE Times ACE Awards, which
celebrate demonstrated leadership in the electronics industry, will be
presented on March 9, 2005 at the Embedded Systems Conference in San
Francisco.

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Selections were based on the most
significant products introduced in the last twelve months as determined by
large-scale peer review.

F5 Networks Offers an Integrated Compression Board in F5's BIG-IP Product Line Using Comtech AHA'S AHA361-PCIX GZIP Card

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The AHA361 -PCIX compression hardware enables F5 to offer greater
performance in F5's BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Management products

Comtech AHA Corporation (AHA), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Comtech Telecommunications Corp."
AHA will also be introducing a full-duplex GZIP hardware
compression card during the second quarter of 2005.

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Quarterly voting was from a list of 10 nominees in each
of seven categories submitted to readers by expert editors with accompanying
editorial reviews. AHA provides flexible, cost-effective
solutions for today's growing bandwidth and reliability challenges. For more information, visit www . Actual results could differ materially from such
forward-looking information.

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About TI Analog, Logic + Power Management
TI offers the broadest portfolio of differentiated and innovative analog
chips to meet the market's growing needs.com .
"Integrating AHA's GZIP compression board into our products allows our
customers to more efficiently centralize and offload compression
processing from the server tier, and ultimately reduce both the
bandwidth cost and download time for delivering web applications.
Located in Pullman, Wash.

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(NASDAQ:CMTL), today announced that
F5 Networks, Inc .

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Finalists in each category were chosen by selected,
qualified readers of EE Times and eeProductCenter on a quarterly basis via
electronic balloting.4 Gigabits per
second.
"We are excited to see our AHA361-PCIX compression card integrated
into F5's BIG-IP product line," said Bill Thomson, President of
Comtech AHA Corporation.

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F5's BIG-IP is an industry leading local
traffic management solution that delivers nearly 3x performance over
their competition and is the first product in the market with
integrated hardware compression to offload expensive HTTP compression
functions from the CPU. Any forward-looking information in this press
release is qualified in its entirety by the risks and uncertainties
described in such Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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Comtech AHA Corporation's AHA361-PCIX card is the fastest GZIP
compression solution on the market today.

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Additionally, TI is focused on meeting the power design needs of customers
through innovative products and technical support.
In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors +
Controls, and Educational + Productivity Solutions.ti.

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