[March 14, 2003]

Performance Technologies� Channel7 SS7 Platform Is Now PICMG 2.16-Compliant

Performance Technologies announced its Channel7 SS7 platform has been upgraded to operate in systems utilizing the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group�s (PICMG) 2.16 CompactPCI/Packet Switching Backplane standard.

Channel7 is a comprehensive hardware and software SS7 MTP-2 platform that provides telecom equipment manufacturers and application developers with enabling technology for the creation of signaling applications and systems. The PICMG 2.16 compliance of Channel7 allows MTP-2 messages to be efficiently transferred over Ethernet to host processing nodes.

�The new version of Performance Technologies� Channel7 platform continues upon our tradition of market leadership in the area of innovative, standards-based enabling technologies,� said Hank Heneghan, director of product management for Performance Technologies. �The platform joins our IPnexus� family of innovative embedded Ethernet switches and access cards, based on the popular PICMG 2.16 standard developed by Performance Technologies.�

Target telecom applications for the new Channel7 platform include Home Location Registers (HLR), Visitor Location Registers (VLR), Signaling Gateways, Signal Transfer Points (STP) and SMS offload platforms.

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