Advanced Computer Communications
Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), founded as Associated Computer Consultants, was a data networking equipment vendor based in Santa Barbara, California. The company began by building IMP interfaces for the ARPANET — initially for IBM 360 mainframes and later for DEC PDP-11 minicomputers — and grew into a maker of wide-area internetworking products for the interconnection and management of distributed computer networks, including carrier-class routers and integrated remote-access gear. In 1990 it sold its ACCES/MVS native TCP/IP stack for MVS to Interlink Computer Sciences. Ericsson agreed to acquire ACC in 1998 for approximately USD 285 million in cash and completed the acquisition that same year, after which ACC ceased to exist as an independent company. ACC predates the public web API era and never operated a developer program, public API, or developer portal; no successor developer surface exists under the ACC name today.
Advanced Computer Communications is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Networking, Router, Wide Area Networking, and Remote Access.
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- Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
- MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
- Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
- Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
- Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
- Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
- Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
- Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
- Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Source (apis.yml)
aid: advanced-computer-communications
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/advanced-computer-communications.png
name: Advanced Computer Communications
description: Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), founded as Associated Computer Consultants, was a data networking equipment
vendor based in Santa Barbara, California. The company began by building IMP interfaces for the ARPANET — initially for
IBM 360 mainframes and later for DEC PDP-11 minicomputers — and grew into a maker of wide-area internetworking products
for the interconnection and management of distributed computer networks, including carrier-class routers and integrated
remote-access gear. In 1990 it sold its ACCES/MVS native TCP/IP stack for MVS to Interlink Computer Sciences. Ericsson agreed
to acquire ACC in 1998 for approximately USD 285 million in cash and completed the acquisition that same year, after which
ACC ceased to exist as an independent company. ACC predates the public web API era and never operated a developer program,
public API, or developer portal; no successor developer surface exists under the ACC name today.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/advanced-computer-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-acquired-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: Ericsson
x-acquired-year: 1998
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 0
pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Networking
- Router
- Wide Area Networking
- Remote Access
- Telecommunications
- Networking Hardware
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Networking
- Routers
- Wide Area Networking
- Remote Access
- Telecommunications
- Networking Hardware
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
common: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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