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Switch or router software

Technology category · O*NET

Switch or router software is a technology category in the O*NET database. Across U.S. occupations, 11 report using software or tools in this category. The named products below are the specific examples O*NET records for those jobs. The occupations that use it sit, on average, at the 91st percentile of AI task-exposure ( high) — how much that work overlaps with what AI can do, not a sign the tool is being replaced. See where every tool category sits.

A Hot tag marks technologies O*NET sees frequently in employer job postings; In demand marks tools an occupation specifically requires.

Example software & tools

Ranked by how many occupations list each product. Each number is an occupation count — a job is counted once per product — so the product rows overlap and do not sum to the category total.

Software / tool Occupations Tags
Border Gateway Protocol BGP 9 Hot In demand
Cisco Systems Cisco Web Cache Communication Protocol WCCP 1
Cisco Systems Gateway Load Balancing Protocol GLBP 1
Cisco Systems Hot Standby Router Protocol HSRP 1
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol EIGRP 1
Intermediate System to Intermediate System IS-IS 1
Router software 1
Switch software 1
Token Ring 1
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links TRILL 1
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol VRRP 1

Occupations that use Switch or router software

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 11 occupations in occupations that use Switch or router software. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Roustabouts, Oil and Gas Computer Network Support Specialists Information Security Analysts Network and Computer Systems Administrators Computer Systems Engineers/Architects AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that use Switch or router software, by AI task-overlap and median pay

How AI is used by roles that use Switch or router software

A software category is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles that report using Switch or router software and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles, weighted by how much observed AI activity each one has. 9.1% of the 11 roles that use this category carry observed AI-usage data (1 roles).

Across those roles, 54.1% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 35.1% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 4.00 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 31.3% AI does it; you give the instruction
task iteration 29.4% you and AI go back and forth
learning 23.3% you ask AI to explain or teach
feedback loop 3.8% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 1.5% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles using this category that have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Works with AI Autonomy
Sales Engineers 54.1% 4.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Roles list software categories in O*NET; this does not mean AI is used inside Switch or router software, only that people in those roles use AI. Some conversations are left unclassified, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Switch or router software matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly use Switch or router software (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5, or report using the tool category). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 2.0% of workers are in occupations that significantly use Switch or router software (measured across 60 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 1,105,900 10.3%
Information 482,150 16.6%
Finance and Insurance 268,120 4.3%
Manufacturing 215,360 1.7%
Management of Companies and Enterprises 196,750 7.0%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 133,960 1.5%
Wholesale Trade 124,150 2.1%
Educational Services 102,440 0.8%
Health Care and Social Assistance 57,860 0.3%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 43,400 7.6%
Transportation and Warehousing 35,680 0.5%
Retail Trade 21,090 0.1%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Information Sector 8.3× 16.6%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Sector 5.15× 10.3%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Sector 3.8× 7.6%
Management of Companies and Enterprises Sector 3.5× 7.0%
Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers National industry 3.05× 6.1%
Engineering Services National industry 2.85× 5.7%
Finance and Insurance Sector 2.15× 4.3%
Temporary Help Services National industry 1.2× 2.4%
Wholesale Trade Sector 1.05× 2.1%
Insurance Agencies and Brokerages National industry 0.95× 1.9%
Utilities Sector 0.95× 1.9%
Manufacturing Sector 0.85× 1.7%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Switch or router software." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/tools/switch-or-router-software

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Singulariki. (2026). Switch or router software. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/tools/switch-or-router-software

BibTeX
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  title  = {Switch or router software},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tools/switch-or-router-software}
}

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