Technical Alert

MIAX Options

March 02, 2016 | 09:53 AM

MIAX Options - Notice of Mandatory Market Data Retransmission Services Changes

MIAX Options is planning to migrate the retransmission services for the following feeds to new servers: Top of Market Feed (ToM), MIAX ORder Feed (MOR) and Administrative Information Subscriber Feed (AIS). 

Summary of Changes:

New Servers - IP Address Changes Required:

The retransmission services for ToM, MOR, and AIS will be migrated to new servers. To facilitate the migration, the retransmission services will be provided via both the current servers and the new servers for a parallel period of approximately two weeks. At the expiration of the parallel period, the services on the current servers will be shutdown.

To migrate to the new retransmission servers, Firms will be required to:

  • Perform the following to support the new server IP Addresses
    • Network/Firewall changes
    • Software Configuration changes

MIAX Trading Operations will coordinate the migration and provide the Network IP Address information related to the changes above.

Important Dates:

Parallel Service Start Date:

  • The parallel retransmission service period will begin on April 4, 2016

Parallel Service End Date:

  • The parallel retransmission service period will end according to the schedule below:
    • April 19, 2016 / Clouds 1-24 / Data Center - NY4
    • April 21, 2016 / Clouds 1-24 / Data Center - NY2

MIAX Options Trading Interface Specifications are located at miaxoptions.com/interface-specifications.  

Contact MIAX Trading Operations at TradingOperations@miaxglobal.com or (609) 897-7302 to discuss any specific issues and to arrange interface testing.