As a reminder, there are approximately nine weeks left until the December 31, 2005deadline for migration from the Market Data Network to the new Market Data Platform.

At this point, each Market Data Distributor should have already placed an order to upgrade their circuit bandwidth or determined that they have sufficient bandwidth to proceed with testing MDN and MDP in parallel, in addition to supporting increased message traffic.  If you haven’t done so yet, please contact one of the individuals listed below immediately.  We also ask that you allow enough lead time to adequately complete the parallel testing phase of the migration.

Please email Laura Sutor at lsutor@cme.com with your target date for completion of the migration to MDP.  We are rigorously tracking these dates with our MDDs to help ensure that everyone is able to meet this critical deadline.

If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact:

Marilee Radecki                                312.930.8193                        mradecki@cme.com

Kevin Brady                                       312.648.3653                        kbrady@cme.com

Thank you.