Performance Technologies' SEGway(TM) IP-Edge Signaling Solution is Chosen by Cricket...

Performance Technologies' SEGway(TM) IP-Edge Signaling Solution is Chosen by
Cricket for Network Expansion and Enhanced Capabilities

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Performance Technologies
(Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading provider of innovative communications solutions,
today announced that Cricket Communications, Inc. has selected the company's
SEGway(TM) IP-Edge Signaling Solution. The deployment of IP-Edge affords the
ability to cost efficiently expand a network by using Performance
Technologies' core-to-edge solution to offload traffic from the core, thereby
increasing network capacity. In addition, the technology enables rapid
time-to-market delivery of advanced services.

SEGway IP-Edge is an integral part of Performance Technologies' core-to-edge
signaling product portfolio. The solutions enable carriers to evolve networks
and contain costs as they compete in the ever changing telecommunications
landscape. SEGway SS7 Signaling products are robust, scalable, and highly
flexible next-generation signaling solutions that comprise the most
feature-rich, highly scalable, and cost-effective signaling solutions
available in the market today. The line includes STPs, Signaling Gateways,
IP-Edges, Applications Gateways, and the SIP Signaling Bridge(TM). These
solutions offer full routing, address translation, and protocol mediation,
along with a complete set of network interfaces including traditional TDM,
SigTran IP, and SIP, equipping a service provider any-to-any connectivity
across all interfaces and networks.

"We are extremely pleased that our IP-Edge distributed network solution was
chosen for such a prominent wireless signaling network," said Patt Rice, vice
president and general manager of Performance Technologies' Signaling Group.
"The decision to implement core-to-edge network topology is the mark of a
leader in the evolution of wireless networks and services."

About Performance Technologies (www.pt.com)

Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX) is a global supplier of advanced
network communications and control solutions to end users, application
developers, and original equipment manufacturers that serve mission critical
telecommunications as well as aerospace and defense markets. The company
provides remotely manageable, IP-centric network elements specifically
engineered for high availability, scalability, and long life cycle
deployments. Its products are built upon its own U.S. manufactured hardware
combined with the company's NexusWare(R) Carrier Grade Linux(R) operating
system and software development environment plus a broad suite of
communications protocols and high availability middleware. Performance
Technologies' product portfolio includes the SEGway(TM) suite of Signaling
(SS7/SIP) Transfer Points, Signaling Gateways and Bridges, and its IPnexus(R)
family of COTS-based application-ready systems, WAN gateways, and
multi-protocol communications servers.

Performance Technologies maximizes the value proposition of its products by
leveraging its field proven systems, software, and hardware technologies
developed over a twenty-eight year record of demonstrated innovation. A
tightly integrated combination of these technologies results in measurable
benefits to its customers through compelling return-on-investment and
substantially accelerated time-to-market metrics. The company is headquartered
in Rochester, NY and maintains centers of engineering excellence in San Diego
and San Luis Obispo, CA, and Kanata, ON, Canada. It has sales and marketing
offices in the U.S. in Raleigh, Chicago, Dallas, and San Jose and
international offices in London, England and Shanghai, China.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements which reflect the
Company's current views with respect to future events and which could impact
the Company's financial performance. These statements are subject to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. The
Company's future operating results are subject to various risks and
uncertainties and may be affected by various trends and factors which are
beyond the Company's control, including customers' acceptance of the Company's
new products. 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, 2008, 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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United States and/or other countries.

SOURCE Performance Technologies

Will Smith, Marketing Communications Manager, Performance Technologies,
+1-585-256-0200, wjs@pt.com