Feed Connectivity Requirements

WAN-Shaped feeds are available to customers with a minimum of 100 Mb/s of connectivity to Cboe via cross connect or dedicated circuit.

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

Cboe Options FLEX feed real-time events are delivered using a single published multicast address for all symbol ranges.

The following diagram is a logical representation of Options FLEX feed message flow between Cboe and a customer feed handler that is listening to the "A" and "B" instances of two units: