Performance Technologies Releases Revolutionary Fault Tolerant Switch for Production.ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- "...Ensures Non-stop Networking for Mission-Critical Environments..." Performance Technologies, Inc. (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), a world class supplier of leading edge, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. networking and data communications solutions, is pleased to announce the production release of its Nebula nebula (nĕb`y  lə) [Lat.,=mist], in astronomy, observed manifestation of a collection of highly rarefied gas and dust in interstellar space. 8000 Fault Tolerant switch, which is now ready for customer delivery. The company was recently an active participant in the Novell Solutions Pavilion at COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). '99 in Las Vegas and used this worldwide information technology event as an opportunity to promote its revolutionary switch to resellers, corporate decision-makers and industry influencers. Where fault tolerance was once seen only in high-end backbone networks - out of the reach of most LANs - Performance Technologies has enabled companies who live-and-die on network reliability to gain all the benefits and safeguards of fault tolerance at a cost far lower than building and running redundant systems. "Network downtime is unacceptable among today's mission critical businesses," said Alan Brind, vice president of marketing and business planning for Performance Technologies' networking products. "With losses averaging $90,000 or more per hour of downtime, progressive organizations are building their networks to meet future demands and provide non-stop, resilient network operation. With these core capabilities, companies can truly trust the network with operational, mission critical tasks." About Performance Technologies, Inc. Performance Technologies, Inc., 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 , designs, manufactures and markets a wide variety of high performance, high availability products including WAN communications solutions - WAN protocol software and hardware - fault tolerant switching systems, networking adapters, and controllers. PTI's products are targeted towards high performance, mission-critical networking solutions in industries such as telecommunications, data communications, financial services, transportation and defense industry applications. PTI PTI - Portable Tool Interface is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (NASDAQ: PTIX). Visit PTI's web site at www.pt.com. Note to Editors: Nebula is a trademark of Performance Technologies, Inc. |
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