This object represents the committed information rate (CIR) against which associated traffic streams will be metered. The CIR specifies the rate at which incoming traffic can arrive to be considered to be at a high level of conformance. Typically, this value specifies the rate at which tokens are added to a token bucket used to meter received flows.

This object specifies a rate in bytes per second units such that, for example, a value of 100 equates to a committed information rate of 100 bytes per second.

Committed rate (and burst) information must be present if the qosMeterDataSpecification object has the value committedData(2) or peakRate(3). This, in turn, requires that at least both high and medium conformance actions be specified.