This attribute specifies the default minimum delay for Dynamic General Cell Rate Algorithm (DGCRA) rate changes for ABR connections. An override to this default may be specified for a provisioned connection under the Vcd Tm Abr or Vpd Tm Abr component.

This attribute specifies a lower bound on the delay after which the rate change induced by a backward Resource Management (B-RM) cell departing from this interface (in the backward direction) is expected to be observed at the interface (in the forward connection).

This lower bound may be approximated as the round trip sum of the fixed and propagation delays between the ABR source and this interface.

The value of this attribute is used in policing an ABR connection using the DGCRA. A smaller value for this attribute implies a more lenient policer. When there is an increase in the Allowed Cell Rate (ACR), the policer waits for a correspondingly shorter period of time before it enforces the new cell rate.

The value of this attribute must be less than or equal to dgcraMaximumDelay, since the maximum delay must be greater than or equal to the minimum delay.