ROCHESTER, N.Y., and PLANO, Texas, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Performance Technologies , a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that the company will partner with Interphase Corporation for select AdvancedMC(TM) I/O modules for Performance Technologies' industry-leading application-ready platform solutions.

Throughout its 25-year history, Performance Technologies has led the industry in the development of open standards, including CompactPCI(R), PICMG(R) 2.16, SIGTRAN and VME. The company continues this tradition by announcing its new 10Gb AdvancedTCA(R) platform products, and expects to augment platform offerings by partnering with Interphase for I/O solutions that are fully-integrated and target wireless and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications.

This partnership aims to broaden Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platform(TM) offering by leveraging the company's Linux-based NexusWare(TM) software suite for use with Interphase hardware elements. NexusWare will add additional value to these elements while offering a consistent software offering to that of other Performance Technologies products. Additionally, the partnership will allow Performance Technologies to bring new and enhanced platforms to market, rapidly resulting in a broad set of application-ready platform solutions.

"Performance Technologies is aggressively pursuing a leadership position in the embedded market, therefore it is necessary to provide our customers with cutting-edge technology that enables them to develop sophisticated, high- demand applications," said Michael Skarzynski, president and CEO of Performance Technologies. "Working with Interphase gives us the ability to add additional functionality that is integrated with our platform offerings for applications in the wireless and IMS markets."

Interphase, a leading provider of robust building blocks, highly integrated subsystems and innovative gateway appliances for the converged communications network, has established a key leadership role in delivering next-generation AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA(TM) and AdvancedMC solutions.

"We are pleased that Performance Technologies has chosen Interphase as a partner to help deliver AdvancedTCA platforms," said Greg Kalush, president and CEO of Interphase. "Our broad portfolio of communications solutions targets the connectivity and traffic processing requirements of emerging wireless infrastructure and IMS network elements. Interphase delivers a highly complementary portfolio of solutions, which will enable Performance Technologies to deliver high-performance, integrated platform solutions to address the density and scalability needs of network infrastructure platforms in a cost-effective manner."

Fully-managed and based on open standards Performance Technologies helped pioneer, the company's line of application-ready platforms incorporates a complete set of solution elements, slot components, operating system software and HA middleware, eliminating the tedious steps involved in platform development. These platforms are an ideal basis for the most demanding wireless, IMS and VoIP communication applications.

For more information on Performance Technologies' application-ready platforms and embedded solutions, visit http://www.pt.com/ or contact sales@pt.com.

About Interphase

Interphase Corporation is a leading provider of robust building blocks, highly integrated subsystems and innovative gateway appliances for the converged communications network. Building on a 30-year history of providing advanced I/O solutions for telecom and enterprise applications, and addressing the need for high speed connectivity, Interphase has established a key leadership role in delivering next generation AdvancedTCA(R) (ATCA), MicroTCA(TM) and AdvancedMC(TM) (AMC) solutions to the marketplace. Headquartered in Plano, Texas with sales offices across the globe, Interphase clients include Alcatel, Ericsson, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola Inc., Nortel Networks Ltd. and Samsung. Additional information about Interphase and its products is available on the company's Web site at http://www.interphase.com/.

About Performance Technologies

Performance Technologies develops platforms and systems for the world's evolving communications infrastructure. Our broad customer base includes global technology companies in the telecommunications, defense and homeland security, and commercial markets. Serving the industry for over 25 years, our complete line of embedded and system-level products enables equipment manufacturers and service providers to offer highly available and fully-managed systems with time-to-market, performance and cost advantages.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California; and Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). For more information, visit http://www.pt.com/ or contact sales@pt.com.

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 various 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 technological changes accompanied by frequent new product introductions, competitive pressures, dependence on key customers, the attainment of design wins, fluctuations in quarterly and annual results, the reliance on a limited number of third party suppliers, limitations of the Company's manufacturing arrangements, the protection of the Company's proprietary technology, the dependence on key personnel, potential delays associated with the purchase and implementation of an enterprise-wide software system and potential impairments of investments. 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, 2005, 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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CONTACT: Kelly Manuel, Performance Technologies, +1-613-782-2881,
kmanuel@pt.com; or Jeannette Hudler of Interphase Corporation,
+1-214-654-5000, pr@iphase.com

Web site: http://www.pt.com/
http://www.interphase.com/