Performance Technologies and GoAhead Team to Offer High Availability AdvancedTCA® and CompactPCI® Platforms
Equipment Manufacturers Can Accelerate Time-To-Market and Reduce Costs With Standards-Based,
Application Ready Platforms
ROCHESTER, NY and BELLEVUE, Wash. – September 26, 2006 – Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communications platforms and systems, and GoAhead® Software, the expert in high availability middleware for systems requiring 99.999% availability or greater, today announced integration of GoAhead SelfReliant® high availability middleware with Performance Technologies’ Advanced Managed Platform™ products. This integrated offering provides equipment manufacturers of telecommunications and defense and homeland security systems with a cost-efficient way to accelerate the deployment of mission-critical applications.
“While standards offer equipment manufacturers increased flexibility, there is still significant effort required to build an application ready platform,” explains Jim Ewel, GoAhead CEO. “GoAhead is pleased to work with an industry leader such as Performance Technologies to provide equipment manufacturers with an integrated solution that is cost-effective and can drastically speed their time to market,” Ewel continues.
GoAhead’s high availability middleware will be incorporated into Performance Technologies’ 10Gb and 1Gb AdvancedTCA® and 1Gb CompactPCI® Advanced Managed Platforms.
Utilizing the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) Hardware Platform Interface (HPI), the Performance Technologies solution includes platform and system management, as well as comprehensive high availability capabilities. Features include resource discovery and system model instantiation, hot swap management, alarm management, shelf manager integration, and integration with Performance Technologies-specific system management capabilities. With these features and this functionality, equipment manufacturers can realize benefits associated with integration by eliminating time-consuming tasks, enabling them to focus on development at the application layer.
“One of the most important requirements for equipment manufacturers is the need to accelerate time to market, and platform offerings based on SA Forum interface specifications will help in making that happen,” states Tim Kober, SA Forum president. “It is exciting to see companies like Performance Technologies and GoAhead offer these high availability solutions,” Kober says.
“Performance Technologies is pleased to team with GoAhead to provide equipment manufacturers with industry standards-based platform solutions for applications requiring high availability and high performance,” says Michael Skarzynski, CEO and president of Performance Technologies. “With this extended capability, Performance Technologies can continue to meet evolving customer requirements for increased integration, reduced costs and accelerated time-to-market at the platform level.”
Availability
The Performance Technologies offering with integrated GoAhead SelfReliant middleware will begin availability in Q4.
About Performance Technologies
Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX) 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 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 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information, visit www.pt.com or contact sales@pt.com.
About GoAhead
GoAhead® Software is the expert in building integrated middleware for telecom equipment manufacturers and military/aerospace equipment contractors requiring extremely high availability. By providing a fully integrated, application ready platform, GoAhead products and services help equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. Deployed on more than 12,000 nodes worldwide, GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. For press information, contact Lacy Williams at 425-468-5417
or lwilliams@goahead.com.
GoAhead and SelfReliant are registered trademarks of GoAhead Software, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
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.
