CME Pit-Data Outages - Update

["carrslem" <carrslem@xxxxxxx>]

Here is a note I just received from the CME on this matter:

In Response To The Recent Network Issues

As you know, CME experienced a partial interruption of price data
transmission (ITC market data), which occurred during intermittent periods
of time over the last two days.
The root cause has been identified, and a permanent solution will be
implemented after the close of trading on Friday, March 26th.
Please view the attached link for more details:
http://www.cme.com/clr/advntc/Market%20Data/6665.html
Thank you,
CME Market Data Operations


At 04:38 AM 26/03/2004, carrslem wrote:

  Does anyone here have any idea what the underlying cause is of the CME
data
  outages?  Since it has occurred on two consecutive days, twice so far
today,
  it would appear NOT to be simply a rare transient glitch but, rather, a
  systemic problem.

  Also, the notice from TradeStation said the data gaps would not be filled
  "because the outage affected all vendors".  Maybe so, but the data ARE
  available - I just checked the CME's time-&-sales file for yesterday and
  there is no gap there.

  Carroll Slemaker