WYDE Voice Selects Performance Technologies’ Advanced Managed Platforms™ for VoIP Conferencing Products

ROCHESTER, NY - July 14, 2008 - Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that the company’s Advanced Managed Platforms™ are being utilized by WYDE Voice, a new startup venture backed by Free Conferencing Corp. founder and CEO David Erickson, as a basis for their wideband audio conferencing solutions.

WYDE Voice will be incorporating Performance Technologies’ AMP5086, an Advanced Managed Platform, into WYDE Voice’s own unique product offering for its customers seeking high-density, low-cost voice, audio conferencing over PSTN lines. "We selected Performance Technologies for their long history of proven innovation and leadership in CompactPCI® solutions," said Michael Eastman, vice president of global sales for WYDE Voice. "Using Performance Technologies’ superior, world-class embedded systems will enable us to more rapidly develop our product offerings to exceed our customer requirements."

Performance Technologies’ Advanced Managed Platforms are built on the company’s broad range of award-winning switches, single board computers, I/O cards, and its CGL 4.0 Registered Linux® OS and development environment, NexusWare®. The ready-to-use platforms feature intelligent and comprehensive management throughout all active components.

The AMP5086 PICMG® 2.16 Platform is an extremely flexible, high availability platform, configurable for both compute-intensive and I/O-intensive applications. It is powered by Performance Technologies’ CPC5564 64-bit dual-core AMD Opteron™ single board computer. The platform supports five-nines (99.999%) availability with built-in redundancy for active system components, including Ethernet switches, intelligent shelf managers (ISMs), power supplies, and fan trays.

"We are extremely pleased to be selected by WYDE Voice to meet their growing network equipment requirements and welcome them as one of our valued clients in the telecommunications market space we serve," said Ed Bizari, vice president of sales and marketing for Performance Technologies’ Embedded Systems Group.

Online Resources

Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ Advanced Managed Platforms and CompactPCI solutions can reference the following online resources:

• AMP5086 product page: www.pt.com/products/prod_amp5086.html
  
• CompactPCI Single Board Computer CPC5564: www.pt.com/products/prod_CPC5564.html
  
• Embedded Products Video Overview: www.pt.com/embedded_overview.html
  
• Intelligent Shelf Manager Product Tour: www.pt.com/prodtour_ISM_welcome.html
  
• PICMIG 2.16 Application-Ready Platforms: www.pt.com/products/prod_AdvancedManagedPlatform.html

About WYDE Voice (www.wydevoice.com)

WYDE develops 16 kHz, wide-band voice applications for organizations of all sizes. The company offers turnkey products with customizable features at the most cost effective price point on the market. WYDE specializes in bringing high-quality voice to complex, multi-speaker and multi-listener environments.

About Performance Technologies (www.pt.com)

Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX) is a global supplier of integrated IP-based platforms and solutions for advanced communications networks and innovative computer system architectures. Our Embedded Systems Group offers robust application-ready platforms that incorporate open standards-based software and hardware, providing significantly accelerated end product deployment benefits for equipment manufacturers. Our Signaling Systems Group offers the SEGway™ product suite, which includes IP STPs, SS7 over IP transport solutions, and signaling gateways that enable lower operating costs through utilization of IP networks, thereby creating competitive advantages for carriers in existing and emerging markets.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California, and Kanata, Ontario, Canada.