This simulation shows a 100 node network operating under the control of the sas protocol during its busiest state—network formation. Network formation is usually completed within a few minutes, although the process continues to operate at a low level to allow new nodes to join the network at any time.

In this short snippet of data (a single 1 second frame), transmissions are shown as red circles about the node location, completed receptions are shown as blue circles with a vector back to the transmitting node, receive opportunities that did not result in a reception are shown as green circles, and collisions are shown as yellow circles.