Performance Technologies Expands Advanced Managed Platform Offering to Include AdvancedTCA-Based Products

ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 6 -- Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading developer of integrated systems, platforms, components and software, today introduced several new products based on the PICMG® 3.0 AdvancedTCA® specification. Each new product is an integral part of the company's Advanced Managed Platform offering.

The ATC5210 12U General Purpose Platform is an extremely flexible, interoperable and high availability platform that allows designers to focus on quickly delivering telecommunications equipment to market. Equipped with the ATC6610 Embedded Base-Fabric Gb Ethernet Switch and MGT7402 Intelligent Shelf Manager (ISM), it features the same field-hardened software used on Performance Technologies' award-winning line of switches and management modules, making it the ideal interconnect for network-centric packet and protocol processing.

Performance Technologies has actively participated in the development of several key industry standards including CompactPCI®, PICMG 2.16 and AdvancedTCA. Performance Technologies' AdvancedTCA product line is well tuned for the next generation of carrier-grade equipment found in the core telecommunications network, such as high-bandwidth routing platforms, optical switching platforms, wireless infrastructure nodes and high-density softswitch and gateway elements.

"Telecom equipment developers have come to rely on Performance Technologies' innovation and expertise in interoperable, packet-based shelf management, Ethernet switching, power and thermal design," said Hank Heneghan, director of product management for Performance Technologies. "Our new line of interoperable AdvancedTCA products is intended to provide our customers with quality platforms and building blocks, similar to our popular PICMG 2.16 packet-based platforms and slot components."

The ATC5210 platform supports five-nines availability with built-in redundancy for active system components including Ethernet hub switches, ISMs, power entry modules and fan trays. The midplane supports 14 slots, update channels, dual star fabric interface and 10/100/1000 Megabit Ethernet dual star base interface.

Based on the PICMG 2.9 Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) standard, the MGT7402 ISM monitors IPMI-based components including fabrics, nodes, hubs, power entry modules, fan trays and any other IPMI device. The ISM may be paired with a redundant standby ISM for use in high availability applications.

The ATC6610 switch can be configured to monitor network status and continuously checks its own health through real-time integrity tests. In the event of system or network failure, data can be automatically re-routed to an alternate path.

For pricing and availability, please visit www.pt.com or contact sales@pt.com.

About Performance Technologies

Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX) develops the systems, platforms, components and software solutions for the world's evolving communications infrastructure. Our broad customer base includes companies in the communications, military and commercial markets. Serving the industry for more than 20 years, our complete line of embedded and system-level products enables equipment manufacturers and service providers to offer highly available and fully-managed systems with time-to-market, performance and cost advantages.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional operational and engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California; Norwood, Massachusetts and Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit www.pt.com or contact sales@pt.com.