CIR is a component of the bandwidth profile traffic parameters applicable to a service running over Ethernet networks. It is the maximum sustained information rate the network is committed to transfer. This is achieved while meeting the performance level guaranteed in the SLA. Three performance metrics (FD, FDV and FLR) are applicable only to those frames that are transmitted at or below the CIR.
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