NASHVILLE, TN—October 6, 2009— Perle Systems is pleased to announce, the Solaris™ Ready certification and compatibility of the UltraPort Serial Cards with Sun Microsystems platforms. All drivers can be downloaded from Perle’s website.

The Solaris Ready Program allows Sun Microsystems customers to easily identify third-party solutions with proven interoperability with the Solaris (TM) Operating System (OS)on SPARC and x86/x64 based server platforms. Implementation of the Solaris Ready certification ensures that the Perle UltraPort Serial Cards have met the testing requirements of the Solaris Ready Program for system compatibility, interoperability, and ease-of-installation and support by Perle Systems.

“This Solaris Ready Certification further solidifies our leadership position in the serial solutions marketplace.” comments Julie McDaniel, Vice President Marketing for Perle Systems.

Perle Serial Cards enable you to easily add RS232, RS422, RS485 serial ports to your PC or server. Compatible with PCI, PCI-X or PCI Express bus slots, Perle serial cards are the only products that support all major operating systems on the market today.

“By participating with us in the Sun Solaris Ready program, Perle Systems provides our customers with products that are optimized to meet Sun requirements and standards for product excellence,” said Cynthia Hardenbrook, director, ISV Engineering at Sun Microsystems. “This provides our global sales force in commercial, telecommunications, and federal markets a ready-to-use solution to meet their customer’s application requirements.”

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