Energy saving: wavelength division multiplexing (wdm) and passive optical network (pon) launch optical channel energy, power and efficiency

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• providing, to an embedding model, operational requirements information for a possible network scenario for an optical communication network;
• receiving, from the embedding model, a plurality of recommendations for satisfying the possible network scenario;
• providing the plurality of recommendations to a large language model;
• receiving, from the large language model, a response, wherein the response includes information recommending operational features and network devices which are adapted to satisfying the possible network scenario;
• and
• modifying the operational features or the network devices, or both, according to the response from the large language model.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a processing system including a processor, network infrastructure information defining structural aspects and functional aspects of a passive optical network (PON), the PON including network nodes and network branches which connect the network nodes;
• receiving, by the processing system, a request to define one or more optimal operational characteristics of the PON;
• receiving, by the processing system, from an embedded model, a plurality of recommendations for network devices, the plurality of recommendations selected to facilitate the one or more optimal operational characteristics of the PON;
• providing, by the processing system, the plurality of recommendations to a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline including a large language model (LLM);
• receiving, by the processing system, from the RAG pipeline, a recommendation defining the one or more optimal operational characteristics of the PON;
• and
• initiating, by the processing system, a modification to one or more network devices according to the recommendation.