Taqua introduced a new series of Class 5 switching system products designed for putting switching intelligence at the edge of the network while enabling an open architecture that can selectively deliver advanced applications to subscribers across any access medium. Taqua's design is to put softswitching functionality at central offices serving up to 80,000 subscribers as well as in remote-office locations serving 600 subscribers or less. This would provide flexibility in delivering advanced services when and where such capability is needed in the network.
For remote office locations, Taqua's is introducing the iX700, an intelligent line access gateway, based on its switch-on-a-card architecture. The iX700 can terminate 624 POTS or xDSL lines. It could be deployed in a remote-office or controlled environmental enclosure. It provides TDM or IP based trunking and can be configured with POTS, xDSL, DS1/E1 or IP interface cards. Signaling types supported include loop start, ground start, DTMF, MF, DP, GR-303, SFI, as well as SIP, SIP-T, NCS+DQoS, MGCP, and H.248.
For central offices, Taqua's Open Compact Exchange has been renamed the iX7000 and enhanced with the addition of an IP card for delivering packet voice in addition to TDM. The iX7000 can be configured with POTS, DS1/E1, DS3/E3, OC-3/STM-1o, OC-12/STM-4o and IP interface cards. It also supports the same range of signalling types.
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- In January 2003, Taqua, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, secured over $20 million in new funding to support its next generation Class 5 switching system. Taqua's flagship OCX incorporates softswitch, signaling and media gateway functionality on a single-card design. The round brought total funding of the company to over $140 million. In addition, Taqua also announced that Rich McGinn, a general partner at RRE Ventures, and former chairman and CEO, Lucent Technologies, and Alex Guira, partner, Investcorp, had joined its Board of Directors.
