First Field Trial of LLM-Powered AI Agent for Lifecycle Management of Autonomous Driving Optical Networks

We design and demonstrate the first field trial of LLM-powered AI Agent for ADON. Three operation modes of the Agent are proposed for network lifecycle management to process wavelength add/drop, soft/hard failures, and power optimizations.

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