U.S. Options

As previously announced in the December 20, 2022 and January 6, 2023 Alerts, MIAX Pearl Options will migrate the Pearl Options Test Beds (FTB1 and FTB2) to a new IP address subnet. Changes will be made after market close on January 20, 2023, and firms can test and verify their FTB connectivity on Saturday, January 21, 2023 between 9:00 AM and 1:00 PM, or any following business day based on need.
 
Objective:

The objective of this change is to facilitate the routing configuration for firms to access the Pearl FTBs on the new Pearl Extranet. The new FTB subnet will be used for unicast and multicast access. Multicast market data source IPs and the multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) will be mapped to the new subnet IPs for FTB multicast market data.
 
What Firms need to do:

1. Accept the new route for the subnet (for both unicast and multicast test bed data) on the new Pearl 10G ULL extranet and existing 1G LL Extranet cross-connects and VPN sessions planning to connect to the Pearl FTBs.
2. Update the multicast RP for the Pearl FTB multicast data and expect the multicast to come from the new source IPs. Please note that multicast groups will not change.
3. Update the test environments access controls and applications level IP for the new Pearl FTB IPs.
4. Please refer to the networking IP/Port details below.

• Network = 199.168.156.240/29
• FTB1 Unicast IPs = 199.168.156.241
• FTB2 Unicast IPs = 199.168.156.242
• RP = 199.168.156.246
• Groups = 233.105.122.240/28