This object represents the upper 32 bits of a 64-bit counter that tracks customer ingress traffic forwarded by the QoS arbiter on a port-per-port basis. In systems where counters exceed 32-bit capacity, this high-order bits object is paired with a low-order bits object to form a complete 64-bit counter. An operator would combine this value with the low-order bits counter to obtain the full packet count for accurate traffic statistics.