arbiter

An arbiter is an object in a policer control policy that controls the amount of bandwidth that may be distributed to a set of child policers. The root arbiter represents the parent policer. The maximum traffic rate defined for the root arbiter specifies the decrement rate for the parent policer that governs the overall aggregate traffic rate of every child policer associated with the policy instance. The root arbiter also contains the parent policer MBS configuration parameters that the system uses to individually configure the priority thresholds for each policer instance. Child policers may be associated directly with the root arbiter, or with one of the tier 1 or tier 2 arbiters created under the root arbiter.