Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for determining placement of telecommunication equipment so as to minimize network cost, maximize network utilization, and meet Service Level Agreements (SLA) for the given network topology and demand requirements. Systems and methods of the present disclosure can be configured to determine minimum number of telecommunication equipment and placement thereof by constructing, based on a given network topology and service requirement, using a heuristic algorithm, an initial population of possible solutions, iterating over the possible solutions to increase optimality of solution based on any or a combination of cost of placement of the one or more telecommunication equipment and number of telecommunication equipment to be placed, and identifying most optimal solution for the placement of the one or more telecommunication equipment.