Performance Technologies Introduces Integrated Ziatech 2.16 Platforms for Creation of High Performance Embedded Applications

11/13/2002 - Performance Technologies announced new additions to its ZiatechTM product family of CompactPCI® Single Board Computers, platforms and components. This expanded product offering helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) quickly and cost-effectively implement standards-based hardware systems, as well as reduce time-consuming integration steps from multiple vendors.

With the new products — the Ziatech ZT 5088e General Purpose PICMG® 2.16 Platform, the ZT 5085e Redundant Host PICMG 2.16 Platform and the ZT 5524e Single Board Computer — Performance Technologies offers one of the most comprehensive suites of complementary PICMG 2.16-based products in the market. These products are the company's first since its acquisition of the Ziatech Computing Products Group from Intel Corporation in September 2002.

Performance Technologies' suite of products provides one of the highest levels of integration to the communications, industrial or military sectors. Its product lines are capable of delivering complete system-level solutions, which include platforms, single board computers, Ethernet switches, chassis management, network access, SS7 signaling and a full suite of communications protocol and development software.

"Performance Technologies can now assist customers earlier in the system-level planning and design phases of their projects, and can ultimately offer a broader, more tightly integrated product solution with our Ziatech, IPnexusTM and SEGwayTM product lines," said Reg Cable, vice president of Marketing with Performance Technologies. "The addition of the Ziatech Computing Products Group allows us to be a more strategic vendor to our customers with a much more comprehensive offering."

Product highlights:

Ziatech ZT 5088e 12U General Purpose PICMG 2.16 Platform

  • Supports compute-intensive applications and is configurable up to 18 independent servers communicating over PICMG 2.16, Ethernet or I/O based applications.
  • Has single or redundant 10/100/1000 IPnexus switching fabric options.
  • Redundant chassis management modules provide highly reliable fault-tolerant active/standby service.
    • Support of IPMI-based management to all major components in the shelf.
  • Redundant power and cooling architectures support up to 50W per node slot and 80W per fabric slot.
  • Five-nines availability:
    • Front serviceable to increase Mean Time To Repair (MTTR).
    • Redundant -48V power inputs without diode tying of the inputs.
    • Dual power domain passive backplane, for isolating catastrophic failures.

Ziatech ZT 5085e 12U Redundant Host PICMG 2.16 Platform

  • Supports redundant-host architecture for I/O-intensive applications, which allows active/active or active/standby system master configuration with low latency applications fail over (<30 milliseconds) when configured with two ZT 5524e single board computers.
  • The attributes listed above for the ZT 5088e also apply to the ZT 5085e.

Ziatech ZT 5524e High Performance Single Board Computer

  • Offers single slot occupancy and compatible with both the ZT 5088e and ZT 5085e PICMG 2.16 platforms.
  • Has single or dual 933 MHz Pentium® III processors, up to 4 GBytes of SDRAM memory and 512K of L2 cache.
  • IPMI-based for increased management capabilities and reliability.
  • ZT 5524e board pairs can be used in redundant host mode to provide a high-availability, low-latency fail-over solution, for both legacy CompactPCI-based architectures and PICMG 2.16-based packet switched architectures.

Availability
The ZT 5088e, ZT 5085e and ZT 5524e are available now. For more information on the complete Performance Technologies Ziatech product family, which includes CompactPCI processor boards, platforms and components, please visit our web site. A white paper on the Ziatech product family architecture is also available.

About Performance Technologies
Performance Technologies (Nasdaq: PTIX) is a global supplier of innovative, packet-based computing, communications and networking equipment. With core competencies in embedded computing, IP/Ethernet, wide area networking and SS7/IP interworking, we offer both hardware and software solutions vital to existing and emerging networks. Our proven products offer cost-saving benefits and time-to-market advantages to companies developing communications, industrial, enterprise and military applications.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional operational and engineering facilities are located in San Diego, California; San Luis Obispo, California and Ottawa, Canada.

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