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Re: FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Niall Gallagher / SDP
6 Jun 2012 3:24AM ET

Hi,

If FAST is comming to an end, is there a reason why? I noticed the following article on the issue.

http://low-latency.com/blog/speed-bumps-ahead-fast

Should I be worried about this? Does this mean that it is not reasonable to adopt FAST for any future projects? Are there alternatives for FIX streaming out there if so?

Thanks,
Niall

> I am taking any sides here. We are to support our platform and will be receiving/parsing market data from CME, OPRA, Eurex, Arca and others -- no matter what kind of protocol or encoding they have to use.
> CME says: "The OPRA connected exchanges are eliminating FIX/FAST entirely by the END OF THIS YEAR". It's kind of a short notice, I would say ;). But I have not heard from any other "OPRA connected exchanges". I am wondering if you, guys, know what was this statement about...
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> > what's your view?
> >
> > > CME:
> > >
> > > The life cycle of the FIX/FAST protocol, including streamlined FIX/FAST, is rapidly approaching its end as an industry standard in the United States. The OPRA connected exchanges are eliminating FIX/FAST entirely by the end of this year. Given the increased availability of bandwidth as well as high speed connections such as co-location, compression has become less critical. In the short term, we are removing certain field operators (copy, default, delta and increment) from our data feed. In the longer term, CME Group continues to evaluate a next generation market data protocol.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anybody have any comments?


FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Igor Zvenigorodsky / Argo SE, Inc   17 May 2012 10:53AM ET
Re: FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering   17 May 2012 12:32PM ET
Re: FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Igor Zvenigorodsky / Argo SE, Inc   17 May 2012 4:20PM ET
Re: FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Niall Gallagher / SDP   6 Jun 2012 3:24AM ET
Re: FIX/FAST is approaching its end?
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering   6 Jun 2012 3:45AM ET