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BACnet Network Traffic Simulator

BACnet MS/TP token passing · Bus utilization · Token rotation & backlog

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Loaded — approaching capacity (75.6%)
Bus utilization is high. Token rotation time is rising — consider reducing polling rate, splitting the trunk, or raising baud.

🛰️ MS/TP Network

Number of devices40 nodes
MS/TP baud rate38400 baud
Polling rate (per device)1 polls/s
Avg APDU payload50 octets

📊 Network Readout

Bus Utilization
75.6 %
Token Rotation
756.3 ms
Offered Traffic
2,640 oct/s
Backlog
0.0 polls/s
Bus capacity3,491 oct/s
Frame size (header + APDU)58 octets
Requested vs achievable polls/s40.0 / 52.9
ASHRAE 135 — BACnet MS/TP token passing: MS/TP is a collision-free master-slave / token-passing data link. Each octet takes ~11 bit-times; bus capacity = baud / 11 octets/s. Utilization is the ratio of offered data + token-pass traffic to that capacity. When offered traffic exceeds capacity, the token rotation lengthens and polls back up — they are deferred or dropped rather than colliding.
Bus Utilization vs Polling Rate · Linear Scale
0.1123450%20%40%60%80%100%120%Polling Rate (polls / device / s)Bus Utilization (%)100% — Saturation1.0 polls/s
Utilization curve
100% saturation
Current polling rate