Disadvantages of sonet

The disadvantages of using SONET/ SDH in the metro include: * Fixed circuits. SONET/SDH provisions point-to-point circuits between ring nodes. Each circuit is allocated a fixed amount of bandwidth that is wasted when not used. That fixed allocation puts a limit on the maximum burst traffic data transfer rate between end points. This is a disadvantage for data traffic, which is inherently bursty. * Waste of bandwidth for meshing. Provisioning the circuits necessary to create a logical mesh over a SONET ring is not only difficult, but also results in an inefficient use of ring bandwidth. As the amount of data traffic that stays within metro networks is increasing, a fully meshed network that is easy to deploy, maintain and upgrade is becoming an important requirement. * Multieast traffic. On a SONET/SDH ring, multicast traffic requires each source to allocate a separate circuit for each destination. A separate copy of the packet is sent to each destination. The result is multiple copies of multicast packets traveling around the ring, wasting bandwidth.