Feed Connectivity Requirements

Gig Shaped feeds are available to customers with a minimum of 1 Gb/s of connectivity to Cboe via cross connect or dedicated circuit.

Customers with sufficient connectivity may choose to take more than one Gig-Shaped feed from the Cboe datacenters. It should be noted that feeds from the secondary datacenter will have additional latency for those co-located with Cboe in the primary datacenter due to proximity.

Cboe Complex Auction Multicast PITCH real-time events are delivered using a published range of multicast addresses divided by symbol range units. It should be noted dropped messages cannot be recovered on this feed as this feed contains only unsequenced messages.

The following diagram is a logical representation of Complex Auction Multicast PITCH feed message flow between Cboe and a customer feed handler that is listening to the A and B instances of two units: