Frame Relay Terms And Definitions (cont’d)

• Committed Information Rate (CIR)

  • The bandwidth defined for a VC

• Bc = Committed Burst

  • Maximum number of committed bits to be transmitted over time interval

• Be = Excess Burst

  • Number of Excess bits that will be transmitted over time

• Tc Time interval

  • Time measurement based how much bandwidth is available for data to burst on to the network

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