Cresta Agents 2026: From Real-Time Coaching to Autonomous CX
Cresta turned real-time agent assist into a full autonomous CX agent in 2026. Here's the deployment pattern, the customer wins at Intuit and Brinks.
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Cresta turned real-time agent assist into a full autonomous CX agent in 2026. Here's the deployment pattern, the customer wins at Intuit and Brinks.
How to fan out WebSocket events across multiple regions with Redis pub/sub: shard-aware topology, federation, and the latency math that decides where to put the broker.
How RTP carries AI voice end-to-end, why Opus matters more than G.711 for model accuracy, and the codec negotiation patterns that ship in 2026.
White Castle is rolling out 1,000 voice kiosks; hotels and retail are not far behind. Here is the WebRTC architecture that powers the 2026 kiosk wave.
When the agent fails, the handoff is the entire experience. Here are the 2026 UX patterns — confidence-based, permission-based, and the warm transcript transfer.
L4S is finally rolling out at the network layer in 2026. Here is what it does for AI voice latency, who supports it, and the realistic timeline for production.
LiveKit Agents went 1.0 in April 2025, hit 1.5 by April 2026, and shipped native SIP plus phone numbers so you no longer need a Twilio bridge. Add MCP tool support and adaptive interruption handling and it is the default open-source telephony framework for AI in 2026.
Every model vendor, telephony provider, and tool integration is a sub-processor under your BAA. Here is how a 2026 HIPAA-aligned AI voice platform audits the chain.
AWS launched the AWS MCP server GA on May 2026. We unpack the awslabs/mcp suite: AgentCore, S3 access, Lambda hosting, ECS deployment, and how to ship a streamable-HTTP MCP on AWS.
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