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block from a user and will attempt to deliver without discard, if bandwidth is available, and over a specified time interval (T). In recognition of the bursty nature of LAN-to-LAN communications, the transmitting device may burst above the Committed Information Rate (CIR) and Committed Burst Size (Bc) for a brief period of time; and the network will attempt to accommodate those bursts.The network reserves the option to mark the excess data above B as discard eligible (DE) should the user CPE not have done c

so already. See also bandwidth, CIR, CPE, DE, frame relay, LAN, and Maximum Burst Size.

• infrastructure mesh
• infrastructure mode
• In-house BPL (In-house Broadband over Power Line)
• in-house broadband over power line (In-house BPL)
• IN (Intelligent Network)
• initialism
• injection fiber
• input/output (I/O)
• INRIA (National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)
• insertion gain
• insertion loss
• inside plant (ISP)
• inside vapor deposition (IVD)
• inside wire and cable
• Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP)
• Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP)
• Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP)
• instant messaging (IM)
• Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
• Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
• Insulated Cable Engineers Association (ICEA)
• insulation
• insulator
• insure
• integrated access device (IAD)