This object represents the peak information rate (PIR) against which associated traffic streams will be metered. The PIR specifies the rate at which incoming traffic can arrive to be considered to be at a medium 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.

Peak rate (and burst) information must be present if the qosMeterDataSpecification object has the value peakData(3). This, in turn, requires that high, medium and low conformance actions be specified.