Lumen Contact Center vs. Close

CenturyLink© Contact Center Solutions offer cloud- and network-based services that provide flexibility, scalability, and low TCO, as well as a robust feature-functionality set that delivers an excellent customer experience. Call Routing: Intelligent Pre-Route (IPR) Reduce call transfers and costly reroutes with Intelligent Pre-Route (IPR), a CenturyLink network-hosted application that integrates with Cisco Intelligent Call Manager (ICM). IPR routes calls to the appropriate destination directly from the Toll Free Network.

Close is a sales CRM with built-in calling, SMS, email, automation, and AI, designed for founders, startups, agencies, and growing sales teams. The platform helps businesses manage leads, communicate with prospects, track opportunities, and automate follow-up from a single system. Close is commonly used by teams that want their CRM to support sales execution, not just store customer data. Users can call, email, text, manage pipelines, assign tasks, create workflows, run outreach sequences, and track sales activity directly inside the platform.