Salesforce taps Ribbon's cloud networking to build AI contact center
Salesforce is building its Agentforce Contact Center on Ribbon Communications' routing and voice infrastructure, hosted on Amazon Web Services. The partnership pairs Salesforce's agentic AI platform with Ribbon's Session Border Controller Cloud Native edition and Public Routing Engine.
The arrangement gives Salesforce a foundation for handling voice and routing logic at scale. Ribbon's technology sits between customer calls and Salesforce's AI systems, managing the network layer that connects incoming contacts to the right agents or automated workflows.
For contact center leaders, the move signals a technical shift in how AI-powered support systems get built. Rather than bolting AI onto existing contact center stacks, Salesforce is designing the infrastructure from the ground up to run AI agents alongside traditional agent workflows.
Ribbon supplies the networking plumbing-session management, call routing, and voice handling. Salesforce layers its AI agents on top. Both run in AWS, eliminating hand-offs between on-premises systems and cloud platforms that can slow down call handling.
The setup matters for teams evaluating AI contact center tools. A tightly integrated stack means fewer compatibility issues and faster deployment than patching AI onto legacy phone systems.
Salesforce has positioned Agentforce Contact Center as a way to handle routine customer inquiries with AI while keeping human agents available for complex issues. The Ribbon partnership handles the technical work of routing those interactions correctly.
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