This counts occurrences where this MEP declared, or received a CCM associated with recovering from, a Remote MEP Loss Of Continuity fault, the condition triggered when this MEP stops hearing CCMs from a specific remote peer for roughly three and a half CCM intervals, meaning that remote peer is presumed down or unreachable. This is typically the fault that actually drives a service-down alarm and any associated protection switching, making it one of the most operationally significant counters in this whole table, directly tied to real customer-facing outages rather than just protocol bookkeeping. An admin correlating an RMEP LOC increment with a physical link-down event on the remote peer's side confirms CFM correctly detected that outage rather than there being a CFM-specific bug.