EIR-I - Excess Information Rate (Ingress)

Identifies the average rate (bits per second) up to which service frames may be delivered but will not be guaranteed per the provider’s service level specification.

NOTE 1: EIR-I is not tracked for frame loss by the MEF Ethernet OAM Protocol, unlike CIR. 

VALID ENTRIES:

 

Valid EIR expressed as a numeric value followed by “K”, “M” or “G” representing Kilobits, Megabits or Gigabits per second respectively.

   

USAGE: This field is conditional.

NOTE 1: Optional when the OAM-IND field is not populated, and the associated LREF field is populated, and the LOSACT field is not “D”, otherwise prohibited.

DATA CHARACTERISTICS: 7 alpha /numeric characters

EXAMPLES:

1

6

K

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

.

0

8

G

 

 

 

 

1

0

.

8

0

8

M