APW Announces New Development System Designed To Support PICMG 2.16 Specifications.Business & Technology Editors POWAY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2001 APW Ltd. (APW: NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange ) today announced a New Development System designed to support the newly adopted PICMG An industry consortium that develops specifications for backplanes and interconnects for electronic equipment in the industrial and telecom fields. It was founded in 1994 as the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group, hence the acronym. (R) 2.16 Specification. This development platform offers OEMs and developers a plug-in-play system to facilitate development programs based on this new standard. The PICMG(R) 2.16 Development Chassis comes equipped with the Performance Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : PTIX) IPnexus(TM) CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. 4400 series of PICMG 2.16 compatible embedded Ethernet switches. Development System configurations offer either copper (CPC4406) or fiber (CPC4401) Ethernet switches and 5-port LIMs. The 9U chassis includes a 15-slot PICMG 2.16 compliant backplane with two standard fabric slots for redundant switch fabrics, 12 node slots, a node-enabled system slot and an H.110 busing and dual power supply. Consult APW Electronic Solutions for other chassis configurations without H.110 and a system slot that is not a node slot. "In our continuing efforts to be a single source solution, we chose to offer the PICMG(R) 2.16 Development Chassis to assist our customers in having a readily available platform in the shortest time possible." said Frank Cooper, VP Sales & Marketing, APW Electronic Solutions. For more information, visit APW Ltd. at www.apw.com, e-mail sales.electronicsolutions@apw.com or call (800) 367-3765 About APW Ltd. APW Ltd. is a Technically Enabled Manufacturing Services (TEMS TEMS Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites TEMS Tactical Emergency Medical Support TEMS Toyota Electronic Modulated Suspension TEMS Tactical Emergency Medical Services (EMS) TEMS Total Electronic Migration System ) company that designs and manufactures infrastructure products for OEMs in the communications, large enterprise hardware and Internet markets. APW Ltd. has particular skills in the areas of manufacturing enclosures, thermal management, power supplies and backplanes; as well as core competencies in product and system design, integration and supply chain management. APW Ltd. operates in more than 30 locations throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. About Performance Technologies, Inc. Performance Technologies is a leading supplier of packet-based telecommunications and networking products for wireline, wireless and next-generation Internet Protocol networks. The company provides enabling carrier-grade technology solutions, including network access products, Ethernet switching products and SS7/IP solutions to network operators, equipment manufacturers and systems integrators worldwide. Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York This article is about the city of Rochester in Monroe County. For the town in Ulster County, see Rochester, Ulster County, New York. Rochester, once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City or . Additional engineering facilities are located in Raleigh, North Carolina For other uses of this name, see Raleigh. Raleigh (IPA: /ˈrɑli/, ral-ee) is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County. ; San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. and Ottawa, Canada. For more information about Performance Technologies, visit www.pt.com. |
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