Design, administration and analysis of SSM multicast network

My thesis deals with the Multicast transfer in IP networks and it describes distribution technology of packets with special focus on Multicast technology. The thesis is devoted to the principles of Multicast including the description of scheme, protocol Multicast distribution, registration in the Multicast groups and finally the advantages and disadvantages of the Multicast transfer. Further in the thesis is described in details the Source Specific Multicast technology (SSM) that comes from multicast. There is a description how this technology Works and its implementation in the network equipment including the user side. This part of the thesis also deals with so called Distribution Trees that are used as multicast distribution via the IP networks like for example Internet. Based on the knowledge of the Multicast was created the network to spread the multimedia data with support of Multicast and SSM. The network is designed based on the Cisco system equipment as is: Cisco Content Engine 566, Cisco IP/TV broadcast server and router 1812. This multimedia network provides many services including the live TV broadcast and video channels. In this network using the multicast distribution of packets was done an analysis by protocol analyzer unit WIreshark and Finisar. This protocol analyzer unit allows us to compare the efficiency of multimedia data transfer between the Unicast, Multicast and SSM