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14 Mar 2023

Increase of allowed ethernet frames per minute

Due to high market volatility, Eurex has decided to increase the number of Ethernet frames per minute allowed over any 10 Gbit/s Order Entry Co-location cross-connect.

The current limit is 300,000 per minute (see Network Access Guide, Section 12.1.2)

From 14 March 2023 this limit has been increased to 350,000 per minute and the aim is to provide all market participants with sufficient headroom to continue their trading and market-making activities.

Eurex will monitor market developments and announce the next steps in a separate Implementation News in due course.


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The market status window is an indication regarding the current technical availability of the trading system. It indicates whether news board messages regarding current technical issues of the trading system have been published or will be published shortly.

Please find further information about incident handling in the Emergency Playbook published on the Eurex webpage under Support --> Emergencies and safeguards. Detailed information about incident communication, market re-opening procedures and best practices for order and trade reconciliation can be found in the chapters 4.2, 4.3 and 4.5, respectively. Concrete information for the respective incident will be published during the incident via newsboard message. 

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