Performance Technologies Launches Voice Media Platforms
Pre-Integrated Development Platforms Provide Time-to-Market Advantages for Telecommunication Applications
October 20, 2008 - ROCHESTER, NY - Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced the availability of the company’s Voice Media Platforms (VMPs), a family of pre-integrated development platforms for telecommunication network equipment manufacturers. These platforms provide a robust combination of Performance Technologies’ hardware and software for developing multimedia applications and offer significant time-to-market advantages through the pre-integration of all platform elements.
The VMP family provides an ideal foundation for new interactive and multimedia applications that are driving revenue opportunities for telecommunication services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), audio conferencing, interactive voice response (IVR), voice and fax messaging, or any application requiring bridging between PSTN and IP networks.
The VMPs are available in a number of preconfigured platforms that include a 4U, 7U, or 12U NEBS-compliant chassis. This scalable approach offers telecom equipment manufacturers a choice of platform and system design configuration options to best meet their requirements, including capacity for up to 13,824 voice ports fully loaded.
The 12U VMP option (VMP121S) comes standard with the following components:
-- Fourteen pre-integrated Media Blades with T1/E1/J1 network connectivity and voice processing technology for a total of 10,572 G.711 ports
-- NexusWare®, the company’s Carrier Grade Linux® OS and development environment
-- Two, dual-core single board computers
-- 2TB RAID storage blade
-- Redundant Ethernet switches and Intelligent Shelf Managers
-- IPMI enabled power supplies
-- Flexible wireless and wireline voice coding support that includes G.711, G.726, G.723.1A, G.729A/B, AMR, EVRC, and QCELP
"We’re offering these new Voice Media Platforms to meet customer requests for a cost-effective approach to transition older, legacy TDM network systems to emerging VoIP technologies," said Performance Technologies’ Director of Product Management Hank Heneghan. "Applications can be developed on the VMPs to meet any need ranging from a small to large deployment. With the significant amount of pre-integration already provided, applications can be up and running in a short amount of time."
System architects and design engineers needing advanced, compute-intensive embedded solutions can meet with Performance Technologies representatives at several upcoming events including the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, MA (October 28-29, 2008, booth 212), and MILCOM 2008 in San Diego, CA (November 17-19, 2008, booth 907).
Online Resources
Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ VMPs and other embedded solutions can reference the following online resources:
-- Voice Media Platforms: http://go.pt.com/vmp
-- CGL 4.0 Registered Linux® OS, NexusWare®: http://go.pt.com/nexusware
-- Embedded Products Video Overview: http://go.pt.com/embedded-overview
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.
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. The Company’s future operating results are subject to various risks and uncertainties and could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and may be affected by various trends and factors which are beyond the Company’s control. 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, inability to gauge order flows from customers, 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 goodwill and investments, foreign regulations and potential material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting. In addition, during weak or uncertain economic periods, customers’ visibility deteriorates causing delays in the placement of their orders. These factors often result in a substantial portion of the Company’s revenue being derived from orders placed within a quarter and shipped in the final month of the same quarter. 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, 2007, as contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The names of actual companies, products, or services may be the trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.
October 20, 2008 - ROCHESTER, NY - Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced the availability of the company’s Voice Media Platforms (VMPs), a family of pre-integrated development platforms for telecommunication network equipment manufacturers. These platforms provide a robust combination of Performance Technologies’ hardware and software for developing multimedia applications and offer significant time-to-market advantages through the pre-integration of all platform elements.
The VMP family provides an ideal foundation for new interactive and multimedia applications that are driving revenue opportunities for telecommunication services such as Voice over IP (VoIP), audio conferencing, interactive voice response (IVR), voice and fax messaging, or any application requiring bridging between PSTN and IP networks.
The VMPs are available in a number of preconfigured platforms that include a 4U, 7U, or 12U NEBS-compliant chassis. This scalable approach offers telecom equipment manufacturers a choice of platform and system design configuration options to best meet their requirements, including capacity for up to 13,824 voice ports fully loaded.
The 12U VMP option (VMP121S) comes standard with the following components:
-- Fourteen pre-integrated Media Blades with T1/E1/J1 network connectivity and voice processing technology for a total of 10,572 G.711 ports
-- NexusWare®, the company’s Carrier Grade Linux® OS and development environment
-- Two, dual-core single board computers
-- 2TB RAID storage blade
-- Redundant Ethernet switches and Intelligent Shelf Managers
-- IPMI enabled power supplies
-- Flexible wireless and wireline voice coding support that includes G.711, G.726, G.723.1A, G.729A/B, AMR, EVRC, and QCELP
"We’re offering these new Voice Media Platforms to meet customer requests for a cost-effective approach to transition older, legacy TDM network systems to emerging VoIP technologies," said Performance Technologies’ Director of Product Management Hank Heneghan. "Applications can be developed on the VMPs to meet any need ranging from a small to large deployment. With the significant amount of pre-integration already provided, applications can be up and running in a short amount of time."
System architects and design engineers needing advanced, compute-intensive embedded solutions can meet with Performance Technologies representatives at several upcoming events including the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, MA (October 28-29, 2008, booth 212), and MILCOM 2008 in San Diego, CA (November 17-19, 2008, booth 907).
Online Resources
Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ VMPs and other embedded solutions can reference the following online resources:
-- Voice Media Platforms: http://go.pt.com/vmp
-- CGL 4.0 Registered Linux® OS, NexusWare®: http://go.pt.com/nexusware
-- Embedded Products Video Overview: http://go.pt.com/embedded-overview
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.
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. The Company’s future operating results are subject to various risks and uncertainties and could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and may be affected by various trends and factors which are beyond the Company’s control. 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, inability to gauge order flows from customers, 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 goodwill and investments, foreign regulations and potential material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting. In addition, during weak or uncertain economic periods, customers’ visibility deteriorates causing delays in the placement of their orders. These factors often result in a substantial portion of the Company’s revenue being derived from orders placed within a quarter and shipped in the final month of the same quarter. 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, 2007, 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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The names of actual companies, products, or services may be the trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective owners in the United States and/or other countries.
