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What is Excess Information Rate (EIR)

Chapter 612
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Specifies the average rate up to, which, excess Service Frames (frames whose average rate > CIR or Committed Information Rate) are admitted into the provider’s network. These Service Frames are not CIR-conformant, and are hence, delivered without any performance objectives.
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Maximum Burst Size of Traffic Determination for Switched Local Area Networks
Monday O. Eyinagho (Covenant University, Nigeria) and Samuel O. Falaki (Federal University of Technology, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch612
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