NewCore Wireless Chooses PT's Signaling Solution for Network Growth and Evolution

SEGway Platform Positions Provider's Network for LTE

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - PT (NASDAQ: PTIX), a leading global supplier of advanced network communications, today announced that NewCore Wireless has purchased its SEGway Signaling Transfer Point (STP) to expand their network capacity and upgrade to SIGTRAN capability. St. Cloud, Minnesota-based NewCore Wireless offers a full line of switching and hosted application services.

The deployment of the SEGway signaling platform positions NewCore for migration to LTE/EPC/Diameter. The SEGway platforms, including SEGway STP and SEGway Universal Diameter Router (UDR), are designed to deliver high performance, extensible, network-based protocol (SS7, SIGTRAN and Diameter) routing solutions, through PT's "Dynamic Routing Engine" concept. This network-proven routing technology, coupled with a common administration capability, provides robust solutions for today's SS7 network and facilitates the evolution to Next Generation Diameter-based networks.

Albert Kangas, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer at NewCore Wireless, remarked, "In our expansion to Next Generation Network, PT was selected to provide the switching element due to their solid signaling experience and their powerful signaling evolution roadmap."

"We are very pleased that NewCore has selected the PT SEGway as their Signaling evolution platform," said Patt Rice, Senior VP, Sales, Marketing and Service, of PT. "Our commitment to further the development of SEGway technology to support LTE and Diameter Routing gives operators a clear evolution path into the future."

PT's SEGway Signaling products are deployed in over one thousand locations, providing the Signaling backbone for many of the world's premier wireless networks. With its small footprint and high throughput capacity, SEGway is widely recognized as the industry's leading signaling architecture, with the ability to scale from small to very large networks.

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About PT (www.pt.com)

PT (NASDAQ: PTIX) is a global supplier of advanced network communications solutions to service provider, government, and OEM markets. PT's portfolio includes IP-centric network elements and applications designed for high availability, scalability, and long life cycle deployments. The industry-leading Monterey MicroTCA and IPnexus Application-Ready Platforms anchor the company's broad range of offerings. PT's SEGway Signaling Solutions provide affordable, high density signaling, advanced Diameter routing for LTE and IMS applications, IP migration, gateway capabilities, and core-to-edge distributed intelligence, as well as features such as Number Portability and SMS Spam Defense. The SIP-based Xpress product family enables service providers to provision a wide range of revenue generating and churn-reducing applications in either cloud-based or captive architectures. PT is headquartered in Rochester, NY and maintains sales and engineering offices around the world.

About NewCore Wireless (www.newcorewireless.net)

NewCore Wireless provides switching and hosted application services with the capability of switching 2G and 3G voice and data today and a path to 4G LTE. Located in St. Cloud, MN the company also offers a full suite of wireless services from site acquisition to optimization/commissioning as well as wireless consulting.

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