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MCTD: Maximum Cell Transfer Delay

Maximum Cell Transfer Delay(MCTD), a term in an ATM network, is the sum of theMaximum Cell Delay Variation (MCDV) and the fixed delay component across the link or node. MCTD is one of four link metrics exchanged using PTSPs to determine the available resources of an ATM network. There is one MCTD value for each traffic class.

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MCTD: Maximum Cell Transfer Delay