What are its chances of succeeding?
Well, that depends on what kind of returns its investors want (and how soon they aim to make their money back). A $14.8 million year for Taqua, as projected by its managers, would be its best in years. And, the company will have to hope Nortel doesn’t suddenly decide to go nuts replacing its DMS-10s with CS 1500s. Also, Taqua’s sales team will have to give carriers a reason not to embrace MetaSwitch’s VOIP architecture, in which a centralized call agent manages a number of media gateways nearer the edge of the network.
