network assessment software

The single-rate three-color network assessment software marker/policer uses an algorithm with two token buckets. Any unused tokens in the first bucket are placed in a second token bucket to be used as credits later for temporary bursts that might exceed the CIR. The allowance of tokens placed in this second bucket is called the excess burst (Be), and this number of tokens is placed in the bucket when Bc is full. When the Bc is not full, the second bucket contains the unused tokens. The Be is the maximum number of bits that can exceed the burst size

Policing is used not only to drop out-of-profile packets, but also to re-mark them, thus indicating to downstream dropping mechanisms that they should be dropped ahead of the in-profile network assessment software packets