This object, part of an ARP rate-limit trap, reports how many individual cells are packed into the accompanying hh3cARPRatelimitTrapMsg object, since a single trap can report multiple instances of ARP traffic exceeding the configured threshold at once. An administrator's monitoring system uses this count to correctly parse out each individual over-threshold event bundled into that trap message. A count of 3 tells the parser to expect three separate 17-octet cells describing three distinct rate-limit events within that one trap.