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These are several recent responses I received from tech support BMI: He indicated BMI
has no plans to increase the speed of their feed. These are his comments:
"At one time we were working on a data receiver that would receive data at 56K, but that
project was dropped after it was found that there were too many problems.
On 12/15/98 we will complete the conversion project as we go from receiving data on
Canadian stocks from the third party data vendor, to receiving this data directly from the
exchanges. In the middle of next year we will be restoring tick volume on options to the
datafeed. This data was first dropped when we switched to direct exchange datafeeds on
options one month ago."
My Comments:
Restoring tick data for options would seem to make the problem worse. I was told about
a year ago that about 1/2 of BMI data feed customers receive data on cable so perhaps the
"problems" with 56K were with inherent speed limitations in cable. I have read DTN's
solution to transmitting their feed on cable was to drop equities and equity options from
their cable feed.
--- Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: divenfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <divenfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, December 04, 1998 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: bmi index symbols
>Re 56k cable: My understanding is that they considered it at one time but decided
>to pass. The only 56k I'm aware of is internet.
>
>Ken
>
>
>Dick Crotinger wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Since those days of yesteryear, Signal has come out with a cable feed at
>> 56KB, so that is the faster alternative. They bought BMI to obtain the
>> fast satellite capability (and to eliminate competition, of course).
>> For sheer bandwidth (via satellite) this is the fastest medium currently
>> available at DBC.
>
> [snip]
>
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