Voyant Technologies Uses Performance Technologies' IPnexus Circuit Switch for Conferencing System

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - October 14, 2003 - Performance Technologies (Nasdaq NM: PTIX) today announced Voyant Technologies, the leader in group voice communication, is using the company's IPnexus® TDM Circuit Switch and NexusWare™ software in its on-demand ReadiVoice® conferencing system. Performance Technologies' IPnexus products offer embedded building blocks based on the PICMG® 2.16 Packet Switching Backplane specification.

ReadiVoice is the world's first reservation-less, on-demand conferencing system. Combining the latest in hardware and software technology, Voyant's ReadiVoice meets the growing demands for high capacity, always-available, totally automated conferencing. Voyant is using Performance Technologies' IPnexus CPC396 TDM Circuit Switch and NexusWare software as a high-density trunk interface for voice ports in the ReadiVoice system.

"As the solution preferred and used by the world's top 10 conferencing service providers, ReadiVoice is a carrier-grade system designed for high volume traffic and extreme reliability," said Randy Schultz, vice president, engineering, Voyant Technologies. "We selected Performance Technologies' products because of their scalability, reliability and high performance."

The IPnexus CPC396 was specifically designed to be the ideal adapter for IP telephony applications requiring the manipulation of large numbers of voice and data circuits. Based on the comprehensive capability of the CPC396 and the associated Performance Technologies Linux-based NexusWare software, designers of carrier-grade, VoIP, wireless infrastructure equipment and other voice/data devices are able to reduce time-to-market and improve profitability of their products.

"Our packet-based hardware and software technology are designed to provide the industry's leading high availability solutions for embedded applications," said Ed Bizari, director of marketing for Performance Technologies. "For customers with demanding requirements such as Voyant, our IPnexus products provide high value, quick time-to-market building blocks for their revenue-generating service platforms."

About Voyant Technologies. Inc.

Combining its history of innovation with more than 25 years of voice expertise, Voyant Technologies designs and delivers high quality, easy-to-use group voice communication solutions. As the market leader, Voyant's customers can count on reliable, scalable, operationally efficient systems and services that allow people to communicate anytime, anywhere.

About Performance Technologies

Performance Technologies (Nasdaq NM: PTIX) is a leading developer of unified embedded computing products and system-level solutions for the communications, military and commercial markets. Serving the industry for over 20 years, our packet-based products enable equipment manufacturers and carriers to provide 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 and Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit www.pt.com.

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Voyant Technologies Uses Performance Technologies' IPnexus® Circuit Switch for Conferencing System