WYDE Voice Selects Performance Technologies'
Advanced Managed Platforms™ for VoIP Conferencing Products

Company Contact:
Mike Eastman
WYDE Voice
866.508.9020
MEastman@wydevoice.com

Agency Contact:
Len Abbazia
Springboard Public Relations
732.863.1900 x. 101
Len.Abbazia@SpringboardPR.com
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ROCHESTER, NY - July 14, 2008 -
Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading developer of communication platforms and systems, today announced that the company's Advanced Managed Platforms™ are being utilized by WYDE Voice, a new startup venture backed by Free Conferencing Corp. founder and CEO David Erickson, as a basis for their wideband audio conferencing solutions.

WYDE Voice will be incorporating Performance Technologies' AMP5086, an Advanced Managed Platform, into WYDE Voice's own unique product offering for its customers seeking high-density, low-cost voice, audio conferencing over PSTN lines. "We selected Performance Technologies for their long history of proven innovation and leadership in CompactPCI® solutions," said Michael Eastman, vice president of global sales for WYDE Voice. "Using Performance Technologies' superior, world-class embedded systems will enable us to more rapidly develop our product offerings to exceed our customer requirements."

Performance Technologies' Advanced Managed Platforms are built on the company’s broad range of award-winning switches, single board computers, I/O cards, and its CGL 4.0 Registered Linux® OS and development environment, NexusWare®. The ready-to-use platforms feature intelligent and comprehensive management throughout all active components.

The AMP5086 PICMG® 2.16 Platform is an extremely flexible, high availability platform, configurable for both compute-intensive and I/O-intensive applications. It is powered by Performance Technologies' CPC5564 64-bit dual-core AMD Opteron™ single board computer. The platform supports five-nines (99.999%) availability with built-in redundancy for active system components, including Ethernet switches, intelligent shelf managers (ISMs), power supplies, and fan trays.

"We are extremely pleased to be selected by WYDE Voice to meet their growing network equipment requirements and welcome them as one of our valued clients in the telecommunications market space we serve," said Ed Bizari, vice president of sales and marketing for Performance Technologies’ Embedded Systems Group.

Online Resources

Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ Advanced Managed Platforms and CompactPCI solutions can reference the following online resources:


About WYDE Voice (www.wydevoice.com)

WYDE develops 16 kHz, wide-band voice applications for organizations of all sizes. The company offers turnkey products with customizable features at the most cost effective price point on the market. WYDE specializes in bringing high-quality voice to complex, multi-speaker and multi-listener environments.

About Performance Technologies (www.pt.com)

Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX) is a global supplier of integrated IP-based platforms and solutions for advanced communications networks and innovative computer system architectures. Our Embedded Systems Group offers robust application-ready platforms that incorporate open standards-based software and hardware, providing significantly accelerated end product deployment benefits for equipment manufacturers. Our Signaling Systems Group offers the SEGway™ product suite, which includes IP STPs, SS7 over IP transport solutions, and signaling gateways that enable lower operating costs through utilization of IP networks, thereby creating competitive advantages for carriers in existing and emerging markets.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California, and Kanata, Ontario, Canada.

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. The Company’s future operating results are subject to various risks and uncertainties and could differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and may be affected by various trends and factors which are beyond the Company’s control. 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, inability to gauge order flows from customers, fluctuations in quarterly and annual results, the reliance on a limited number of third party suppliers, limitations of the Company’s manufacturing capacity and arrangements, the protection of the Company’s proprietary technology, the dependence on key personnel, changes in critical accounting estimates, potential impairments related to goodwill and investments, foreign regulations and potential material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting. In addition, during weak or uncertain economic periods, customers’ visibility deteriorates causing delays in the placement of their orders. These factors often result in a substantial portion of the Company’s revenue being derived from orders placed within a quarter and shipped in the final month of the same quarter. 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, 2007, 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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Contact Info:
Will Smith
Marketing Communications Manager
Performance Technologies
585-256-0200
wjs@pt.com