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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Equity Trader Alert #2015 - 127
Reminder - Nasdaq DR Customer UAT

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  • Connectivity

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As recently announced, Nasdaq is moving its Disaster Recovery (DR) site for the U.S. equities and options markets in a phased approach from Ashburn, VA to Chicago, IL beginning in August 2015.

The following is a reminder of the first UAT window for customer testing of both market data and order entry for all six equities and options markets from Chicago on August 15, 2015. All Saturday testing will occur between 9 A.M. – 12 P.M. ET.

Customers may refer to our DR Migration website for more detail.

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Customers can opt-in to the UAT by contacting Trading Services.

If you require connectivity to our Nasdaq DR site in Chicago (Equinix CH4), please submit your request in the Nasdaq Co-Lo & Connectivity Console, or contact CoLo Admin for assistance.

Timeline of the Migration

Nasdaq will be moving the DR connectivity of its US markets according to the schedule below.

Chicago Ashburn
Market Data Feeds Available UATs for Order Entry Order Entry Production Launch "Order Entry Shutdown" Data Feeds Shutdown
Nasdaq Aug 15, 2015 Aug 15, 2015*
Aug 29, 2015*
Sept 12, 2015
Sept 26, 2015
Oct 10, 2015
Oct 24, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 		Sept 1, 2015 Nov 9, 2015 Jan 29, 2016
PHLX
Nasdaq Optons
BX Options
BX
PSX

* There will be two UAT weekends for order entry testing prior to the production launch date. Following the launch, customers will be able to use their Chicago ports for production traffic even when Carteret is active.

Other Nasdaq post-trade, back office and reporting services along with FINRA related services will be moved to Chicago in early 2016.

More Information

Customers may contact Andrea Moran at +1 212-231-5162, Doug Aragones at +1 212 231 5189 or their Nasdaq relationship manager for additional details.

Please also refer to the DR Migration page on our website for an updated timeline.


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