Performance Technologies Wins Key Wireless Application Business with Harris Stratex's Purchase of IPnexus(R) Application-Ready Systems

Performance Technologies Wins Key Wireless Application Business with Harris
Stratex's Purchase of IPnexus(R) Application-Ready Systems
Wireless Service Gateways to be Developed on Award-Winning MicroTCA® Platform

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Performance Technologies
(Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading provider of innovative network communications
solutions, today announced that Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSTX),
has selected the company's IPnexus® MicroTCA® System as its design platform to
develop new WiMAX and LTE products. Harris Stratex is a global supplier of
advanced wireless solutions that enable the evolution of next-generation fixed
and mobile broadband networks.

This design win marks a turning point in an industry where development
platforms are regularly assembled using hardware, software, and middleware
from multiple vendors, requiring extensive compatibility testing and
configuration that consumes premium time and scarce resources. The
pre-integrated, Application-Ready System from Performance Technologies is
unique in its offering, whereby all elements of operating system and
middleware, processor technology, and platform are designed, manufactured, and
pre-integrated from a single source.

"Our main objective was to reduce the time and expense of bringing our
wireless service gateway to market," said Paul Kennard, Senior Vice President
and Chief Technical Officer of Harris Stratex. "The IPnexus platform is the
most cost-effective solution because we don't have to be a systems integrator;
instead we are able to devote considerably more energy to creating quality
applications for our customers. Their high-end technology is extremely
flexible and scalable, and better positions the final product to meet our
worldwide customer demand for high performance, cost-effective wireless
gateways."

Performance Technologies has created a new paradigm and occupies an exclusive
market position with its IPnexus Application-Ready Systems. Designers are now
able to obtain from a single source a complete and robust development system
comprised of 1U MicroTCA platform, AdvancedMC(TM) processors, media, and
communications modules, and a comprehensive Linux®-based software suite, named
NexusWare®. NexusWare includes a registered 4.0 Carrier Grade Linux
distribution, cross-platform development environment, a highly customizable
kernel builder, protocol stacks for communication applications, web-based
system management, and APIs and drivers specifically tuned to its platforms
and AMC modules to offer a synergistic, highly compatible, and fully featured
system.

"We applaud Harris Stratex for selecting our highly integrated solution set as
the foundation for their wireless service gateways," said Patt Rice, senior
vice president at Performance Technologies. "We anticipated that the demands
of proliferating wireless and internet services would outpace earlier
technology, and we pioneered a daring new approach in our Application-Ready
Systems. The eager and growing adoption of this approach by wireless
application developers serves to amplify our assertion that the era of
MicroTCA has arrived."

Performance Technologies will be showcasing its IPnexus MicroTCA
Application-Ready Systems at the ATCA Summit 2009 in San Jose, CA, from
October 27-29, 2009 (booth 430).

Online Resources
Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies'
IPnexus MicroTCA Systems can access the following online resources:
AMP5071 specifications and product photo: http://go.pt.com/amp5071
NexusWare OS and development environment: http://go.pt.com/nexusware
NexusWare Portal for IPnexus MicroTCA Platforms:
http://go.pt.com/nexusware-portal
Pre-recorded Webinar: The State of MicroTCA: http://go.pt.com/webinar

About Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. (www.harrisstratex.com)
Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of wireless solutions that
enable the evolution of next-generation fixed and mobile broadband networks.
The company offers reliable, flexible and scalable wireless network solutions,
backed by comprehensive professional services and support. Harris Stratex
Networks serves all global markets, including mobile network operators, public
safety agencies, private network operators, utility and transportation
companies, government agencies and broadcasters. Customers in more than 135
countries depend on Harris Stratex Networks to build, expand and upgrade their
voice, data and video solutions. Harris Stratex Networks is recognized around
the world for innovative, best-in-class wireless networking solutions 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® Carrier Grade Linux® 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® 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.

NexusWare and IPnexus are registered trademarks of Performance Technologies,
Inc.

The names of actual companies, products, or services may be the trademarks,
registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective owners in the
United States and/or other countries.

SOURCE Performance Technologies

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