A. Switch times would exceed 50 ms for an OC-3 BLSR ring.
B. An equal amount of working and protect bandwidth is required.
C. DCC bandwidth is not large enough to handle K1/K2 processing.
D. There is not enough bandwidth in an OC-3 ring to justify BLSR protection.

A. It protects signals against node failures between rings.
B. It protects signals against node failure within a single ring.
C. It allows for traffic to be preempted when a ring switch occurs.
D. Traffic can be dropped and continued at interconnecting nodes.
E. It protects preemptible traffic from being dropped when a ring switch occurs.