Beginning Friday, August 1, 2008, CME Group will add FIX/FAST market data statistics to the CME Group Metrics page on cmegroup.com.   This page gives Quote Vendors an insight to key market data statistics such as average bandwidth, peak bandwidth, average message rate and peak message rate on a daily, monthly or quarterly basis. The addition of FIX/FAST statistics to the CME Group Metrics page will provide a useful resource to monitor the following, associated with FIX/FAST conversion:

·          FIX/FAST bandwidth usage

·          FIX/FAST bandwidth savings

·          Effectively load balance market data  during parallel production phases of RLC and ITC conversions

Please contact mdo@cmegroup.com if you have any questions concerning this notice. Thank you