Performance Technologies Debuts NGN Xpress(TM) Product Line

ROCHESTER, New York, February 12 - Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX), a leading global provider of
advanced network communications solutions, today unveiled their newest
product line, Xpress(TM), a portfolio of SIP-based applications and enabling
infrastructure targeted towards carriers deploying next-generation network
(NGN) architectures.

The adoption of voice-over-packet architectures by wireless and wireline
carriers, and the emergence of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) as the
predominant signaling protocol on these networks have presented new
opportunities for service providers to market media-rich and web-friendly
applications to their subscribers. Performance Technologies' Xpress(TM) is a
new approach for delivering these capabilities in the most cost effective
manner. Based on a pure IP implementation, new service offerings can be
quickly developed and readily deployed, network-wide, on IMS enabled,
converged TDM/IP and VoIP networks.

"Rather than relying on costly, circuit-switched, single application
platforms, Performance Technologies delivers multiple SIP-based services
starting with a single Xpress SIP Application Server, and can rapidly add or
modify services without interruption," said Patt Rice, Senior Vice President
for Performance Technologies. "Our strategy facilitates rapid delivery of
monetizing features such as Prepaid Services, Voice Messaging, and WEB/Mobile
2.0 interactive media-rich services in any IMS network on a right-sized
hardened platform."

Xpress offers service providers and application developers alike a
complete service development method to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver
profitable calling services and other NGN applications. Its open architecture
and variety of next-generation network standards - including SIP, IMS,
VoiceXML, MGCP, and XML, result in a remarkably flexible and scalable
multi-service development environment. Xpress includes web services APIs for
easy integration with service providers' existing provisioning applications,
a software based media server for IVR and announcements, as well as robust
billing features to optimize service revenue.

Featuring a wide range of configurations and based on Performance
Technologies' NexusWare(R) Carrier Grade Linux(R) distribution, the Xpress
SIP platforms are ideal for deploying reliable applications with built-in
OA&M support. Built on the company's line of IPnexus(R) Carrier Grade
Systems, users can expect five-nines (99.999%) reliability. Xpress also
supports an N+1 configuration within a cluster, ensuring that the failure of
any one server will not affect overall system capacity.

Performance Technologies' Xpress product line will be featured on their
Stand #2G39 at the Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona, February 15-18,
2010.

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.

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