Computer Consoles Inc – the name now applies only to the side of the company selling computer systems for telephone companies which is now owned by Northern Telecom Ltd and divorced from the owner of the commercial computer systems side of the business, owned by ICL Plc – has turned to Sun Microsystems Inc for the computers it built itself in its former incarnation. It signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Sun under which it will integrate and resell Sparc-based computers as the basis for its telecommunications applications, which integrate database, call processing and audio subsystems for applications such as directory enquiries, toll and intercept services, and a variety of new speech processing services in the works. Computer Consoles originally used PDP-11s from Digital Equipment Corp before building its own Unix computers around the Motorola Inc 68000 microprocessor line.
