ABSTRACT

Anthonia Arung Lallo, The Implementation of the Multicast Method for Multi-media Streaming (supervised by Rhiza S. Sadjad and Zulfajri B. Hasanuddin).

	The main goal of this research project is to show the performance of the Multicast method as compared to the conventional Unicast method in the multi-media streaming through a dedicated network. The case of the National Education Network (JARDIKNAS) subnetting from Surabaya to Makassar, from Makassar to Kendari, Palu and Gorontalo, and from Gorontalo to Manado is considered.

	Two network parameters, i.e. the throughput and the link utility, are computed for both multicast and unicast methods using the OPNET Modeler 14.0 software package. 

	The results of the computation have shown that the throughput of the multicast method is 97500 Byte/second as compared to only 91902,77 Byte/second for the conventional unicast method. The multicast method also reduces the link utility factor up to only 1.15% for all subnets, while the unicast method has proven utilized the link with the link utility factor ranging from 2.17% to 14.14%.