Ribbon Communications Inc. (RBBN)

Communications software and optical networking. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 131 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A communications technology company with 3,080 employees, 40% in Asia, split by description between its software segment and its optical hardware segment.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 46% now, 62% at the end of 2027, 66% at the end of 2028, 68% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 68% desk work, 21% people work and 11% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 33% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 57% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

3,080 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). North America is stated, not the U.S.: 889 employees (29%) in North America, 1,228 in Asia, 859 in EMEA and 104 in Latin America.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had a total of 3,080 employees worldwide, located geographically as follows: Asia 1,228 (40%), North America 889 (29%), EMEA 859 (28%), LATAM 104 (3%).”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,080 employees: Asia 1,228, North America 889, EMEA 859, Latin America 104; approximately 590 covered by collective bargaining agreements or works councils; 1,283 employees volunteered in 2025.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)52% now, 71% by 2028
• DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)52% now, 71% by 2028
• Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS, 28,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

39 sentences in the filing name AI. Thirty-nine sentences, market and product: the adoption of AI by service providers and enterprises, voice capabilities in agentic AI platforms, and traffic growth from large language model applications.

• “We are at the intersection of the adoption of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") by Service Providers and Enterprises addressing the rapid growth in fiber connectivity and integration of voice capabilities into Agentic AI platforms We are headquartered in Plano, Texas, and have a global presence with research and development or sales and support locations in over 30 countries around the world.”
• “The exponential growth in traffic has largely been driven by video consumption, and over the next several years, new applications leveraging large language model ("LLM") AI are expected to dramatically increase network bandwidth usage.”
• “New applications enabled by LLM AI will dramatically increase traffic from subscriber devices to the data center.”
• “Many of these programs were well underway before the potential for additional exponential growth in data driven by AI training and inference applications.”
• “To manage the increasing traffic volumes from both AI & expanded broadband access, data center operators and communication service providers will require high-density optical networking and IP routing platforms.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20213median 0
• Fiscal 20221median 0
• Fiscal 20233median 1
• Fiscal 202414median 4
• Fiscal 202539median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The segment split is by description from revenue; the filing counts employees by region, not by segment.
• The U.S. share is not stated apart from North America (rule 7).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001708055-26-000012, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.