Performance Technologies Boosts SS7 Performance, Cost-Effectiveness with Channel7™ CompactPCI® Support

Up to 64 SS7 links on T1/E1 adapter give telecom equipment vendors powerful and highly cost-effective entry in challenging market

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. - October 10, 2001 - Performance Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PTIX) today announced that its Channel7™ SS7 platform is available immediately on the company's IPnexus® CPC388 CompactPCI® T1/E1 adapter. The combined solution, which can support up to 64 SS7 links, forms a powerful, highly cost-effective offering for telecommunications equipment manufacturers competing in a challenging market.

The Channel7 product leverages Performance Technologies' expertise in the SS7 signaling market. In the past year, Performance Technologies has introduced such core SS7 signaling products as the award winning MicroLegend® 4000 Series Signaling Gateways, the MicroLegend Signaling Blade and the SEGway™ Edge Devices. These innovative products are being used by leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies around the globe to bridge SS7 signaling between the public switched telephone network and IP.

Telecom equipment manufacturers and developers of voice, data and wireless network applications utilize the robust capabilities of Channel7 for the creation of SS7 applications and systems. Integrating the field-proven Channel7 MTP-2 and application programmer interface (API) onto the hot-swappable IPnexus CPC388 enables equipment developers to develop carrier-grade applications with their SS7 stack of choice, while using Channel7 to increase system link performance.

"In this challenging telecom equipment market, vendors need carrier-grade solutions that deliver performance, cost and time-to-market advantages at once. The availability of Channel7 on the CPC388 does exactly that," said Ed Bizari, director of marketing for Performance Technologies.

Installed in a CompactPCI chassis, the Channel7 solution provides a high density SS7 MTP-2 baseline for the development of telecom or IP telephony equipment such as SS7 signaling/media gateways, 2.5G and 3G wireless infrastructure equipment and conventional SS7 network elements. Upper level SS7 stacks beyond MTP-2, used to query databases and set up and tear down voice calls, are easily integrated with the Channel7 platform through its comprehensive API.

Performance Technologies' Solaris and Linux-compatible Channel7 platform starts at $5500 including both the hardware and software. Availability is immediate.

About Performance Technologies, Inc.

Performance Technologies is a leading supplier of packet-based telecommunications and networking products for wireline, wireless and next-generation Internet Protocol networks. The company provides enabling carrier-grade technology solutions, including network access products, Ethernet switching products and SS7/IP solutions to network operators, equipment manufacturers and systems integrators worldwide.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional engineering facilities are located in Raleigh, North Carolina; San Diego, California; and Ottawa, Canada. For more information about Performance Technologies, visit www.pt.com.

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These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and the Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other factors, general business and economic conditions, rapid or unexpected changes in technologies, cancellation or delay of customer orders including those relating to design wins, changes in the product or customer mix of sales, delays in new product development, customer acceptance of new products and customer delays in qualification of products. These statements should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements, the Notes thereto, and Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations of the Company as of December 31, 2000, as reported in its Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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