Performance Technologies Launches NexusWare® Portal, a Web-based Interface for Managing Integrated MicroTCA™ Platforms
February 23, 2009 - ROCHESTER, NY - Performance Technologies (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading provider of innovative communications solutions, today announced the availability of NexusWare® Portal – a web-based development and management tool that provides remote management and monitoring of the company’s IPnexus® MicroTCA™ platforms, such as the AMP5070. This robust, application-ready system is comprised of the company’s award-winning, 1U MicroTCA platform equipped with an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor running NexusWare, the company’s tightly integrated Linux® OS and development environment.
The addition of NexusWare Portal to the NexusWare family of software products provides communication systems designers building on MicroTCA platforms, with enhanced system control, development capabilities, as well as serviceability of these solutions via a web-based, graphical user interface (GUI).
"Today’s communication equipment developers face significant challenges with platform integration, management, and application development. NexusWare Portal provides features to simplify these challenges in a cost-efficient manner," said Steve Wigent, product manager at Performance Technologies. "The intuitive GUI utilized in NexusWare Portal provides web-based remote access and gives system developers and communication network managers unparalleled access to platform operation, system configuration, and maintenance information. This capability further maximizes system performance and delivers improved efficiencies over the life of these communication systems."
As communication system designers and integrators seek new ways to reduce design costs and quicken time-to-market for new products, Performance Technologies’ integrated IPnexus MicroTCA platforms, combined with NexusWare Portal, provides a compelling advantage for these new initiatives. MicroTCA is gaining momentum as a preferred form factor for building next-generation solutions such as wireless and WiMAX equipment, radar access devices, VoIP gateways, communication servers, and other advanced communication systems in telecommunications as well as aerospace and defense applications.
The company will be demonstrating NexusWare Portal and its IPnexus MicroTCA Platforms at the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2009, San Jose, CA (March 31-April 2, 2009, booth 1630).
Online Resources
Embedded engineers needing more information on Performance Technologies’ IPnexus MicroTCA platforms and NexusWare software can reference the following online resources:
-- White Paper: MicroTCA – New Advances Provide New Opportunities: http://go.pt.com/microtca-advances
-- White Paper: Platform Economics – How to Chart a Cost-Effective Course: http://go.pt.com/platform-economics
-- AMP5070 product page: http://go.pt.com/amp5070
-- NexusWare Portal product page: http://go.pt.com/nexusware-portal
-- NexusWare CGL software suite: http://go.pt.com/nexusware
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® Carrier Grade Linux® operating system and software development environment plus a broad suite of communications protocols and high availability middleware. Performance Technologies’ product portfolio includes the SEGway™ suite of Signaling (SS7/SIP) Transfer Points, Signaling Gateways and Bridges, and its IPnexus® 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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