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November 19, 2007 - ROCHESTER, NY - Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that it will be expanding the Signaling Systems Group?s international sales and marketing efforts. Additional investments are being made to enable the company to better serve a growing international market demand for its IP-based Signaling products and solutions. The company also announced today, as part of its international expansion, the appointment of Mr. Cory A. Grant to vice president, international sales and market development, for the Signaling Systems Group.

"One of our key initiatives in 2007 was the further leveraging of our substantial Signaling and IP-packet core technologies," said Performance Technologies? President and CEO John M. Slusser. "To that end we have been investing in our Signaling product line development and expansion, product support infrastructure, and establishment of a world class, North American sales and marketing organization. As we look forward to 2008, I am pleased that our Signaling products have been gaining significant North American market traction. The international expansion we are announcing today is an important next step as we anticipate future growth in many key global markets, most notably in Europe, Asia, and the Americas."

Mr. Grant joined Performance Technologies in early 2007 as the director of business development. Prior to joining the Signaling Systems Group, Mr. Grant held several executive level positions managing sales teams in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and other regions for Tekelec. Mr. Grant also worked at Nortel in a variety of sales and management positions.

"With his in-depth knowledge of the communications industry and his vast experience in global market development, Cory is well suited to lead our international market expansion," said Patt Rice, vice president and general manager of Performance Technologies? Signaling Systems Group. "With our Signaling Group?s leadership and our commitment to develop the smartest, most comprehensive and cost-effective signaling solutions, we anticipate high levels of success in these international markets."

Performance Technologies? Signaling Systems Group provides next generation signaling solutions that enable telecommunication network providers to optimize their existing signaling network infrastructure and reduce their operational expense through new efficiencies. Signaling traffic continues to grow as consumers rely more and more on their wireless phones for applications like short message service (SMS) and location-based services. Performance Technologies? signaling solutions offer both wireline and wireless carriers an innovative evolution to an IP-based signaling network as they re-architect their networks to IMS and SIP. These signaling solutions support the latest SIGTRAN standards, like M3UA, M2PA, and M2UA, and are engineered to ensure the highest level of carrier-grade reliability. More information on the company?s suite of SS7/IP products can be found at www.pt.com/signaling.

Telecommunication equipment design engineers and wireless network system architects can meet with Performance Technologies representatives at a number of events that include the 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain (February 11-14, 2008, booth 2.1A01) and COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2008 in Nashville, TN (February 26-26, 2008, booth 818).

About Performance Technologies

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.
Forward Looking Statements

The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor" for certain forward-looking statements. This press release contains forward-looking statements which reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and financial performance, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is subject to the safe harbor provisions of those Sections.

These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and the Company's actual results can differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other factors, general business and economic conditions, rapid technological changes accompanied by frequent new product introductions, competitive pressures, dependence on key customers, the attainment of design wins and obtaining orders as a result, fluctuations in quarterly and annual results, the reliance on a limited number of third party suppliers, limitations of the Company's manufacturing capacity and arrangements, the protection of the Company's proprietary technology, the dependence on key personnel, changes in critical accounting estimates, potential impairments related to investments, foreign regulations, and potential material weaknesses in the future. Forward-looking statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements, the Notes thereto, Risk Factors, and Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of the Company as of December 31, 2006, as contained in the Company?s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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