Total Access 5000 Business Services Deployment Guide
F-14 65K510DEP08-1A
Bandwidth Policer
Abandwidthpolicerisamethodofcharacterizingserviceframesforthepurposeofrate
enforcement.Abandwidthpolicercanbeappliedinoneofthefollowingways:
•IngressbandwidthpolicerperingressUNI
•IngressbandwidthpolicerperEVC
•Ingressbandwidthpolicerpercustom
Intypicalapplications,thebandwidthavailableontheEVC
islessthanthebandwidth
availableattheUNIport.Thebandwidthbottleneckistypicallyonlyinthe UNI‐to‐MEN
direction;therefore,allbandwidthpolicersareappliedonlyfortrafficconductedintheUNI‐
to‐MENdirection.PolicersarenotappliedtothetrafficconductedintheMEN‐to‐
UNI
direction.
Bandwidth Policer Attributes
Theattributesofabandwidthpoliceraredescribedinthefollowingparagraphs.
Name
Thisattributeisanarbitrarystringthatisusedtoidentifythepolicer.Thevaluemustbe
uniqueacrossallpolicersdefinedintheproduct,andisintendedformanagementandcontrol
purposes.ThevalueisnotcarriedinanyfieldintheEthernetframe.
Configuration Status
Thisattributeisaread‐onlystatusidentifierofthepolicer.Thepolicercanbeadministratively
enabled,butitcannotbeinfunctionalstateifitisnotfullyconfiguredorifthereisaconflict.
TableF‐11liststhepossiblevalues.
Table F-11. Policer Status Values
Possible Value Definition
Running Thepolicerisrunningandapplyingingressabandwidthprofile
toanymatchingEVCmaps.
Disabled TheadministrativestateofthepolicerisprovisionedasDisabled.
Duplicatepolicer Anenabledpolicerwithequalprecedenceandequalvalueexists.
RefertoRule4onpage F‐2.
Invalidrate(s) ThevaluesforCIRand/orEIRconflictin
relationtotheratecou‐
plingvalue.
NoMode Themodeattributeofthepolicerisnotset.
UnknownUNI ThemodeisperUNIandtheUNIcannotbefound.
UnknownEVC ThemodeperEVCandtheEVCcannotbefound.
UnknownEVC‐map ThemodeperCustomandtheEVCmap
cannotbefound.