IT – Nasdaq Nordic Primary Data Center Relocation Project Update (10/16)

This IT Notice includes instructions for mandatory activities for ALL customers and service providers with connectivity to Nasdaq Nordic and Nasdaq Baltic.

This data center relocation requires that all customers make necessary arrangements in order to establish connectivity to the new VASBY data center. If not yet done, please contact your connectivity provider as soon as possible to make sure you have connectivity to the VASBY data center in advance of the mandatory tests described further down in this notice.

We have just published a new monthly newsletter with general information about the Data Center relocation project.


Connectivity to VASBY Data Center

Nasdaq Extranet providers are currently setting up their equipment in the VASBY facility. Approximately 10 different providers have already installed their equipment in the new data center. The first connectivity provider is connected to our Extranet and we estimate that two major providers will be ready by the end of this week.

The remaining Extranet providers at VASBY will finalize their configuration during March to allow the first connectivity tests for members in the end of March according to plan.

Please contact your connectivity provider for more information.

INET
INET (Cash Equity) at VASBY Data Center will receive production status on June 6^th as a secondary failover site to the current INET LUNDA and PORT production systems. It will be promoted as the primary production site as of June 20^th.
Between June 6^th and June 19^th customers can migrate their primary connections to VASBYs new INET destination IP addresses at their own pace. All IP addresses and ports at the failover site PORT will remain as is. The INET system in VASBY is built on new hardware- and network infrastructure and has been assigned new destination IP addresses. TCP port numbers will remain as today, only ITCH UDP Multicast has been assigned new ports.

Customers need to take necessary actions due to the changes of destination IP addresses and UDP ports. The new destination IPs and ports can be found in the Connectivity Guideline for INET Pre-Production. http://www.nasdaqomx.com/transactions/technicalinformation/data-center-relocation

Customers have now received their individual pre-production ports/accounts details. If you haven’t received your new pre-production port details, please contact Nasdaq Cash Equity Operations immediately: operator@nasdaq.com, +46 8 405 6410.

Customers who will connect from other source IPs/Subnets than today will need to send in the Source IP Collection Form to operator@nasdaq.com

Port details to the new INET Test environment in VASBY Data Center will be provided in April. The new INET Test environment will be available from May 2^nd, 2016.

To prepare for INET production launch at VASBY Data Center the following activities will be arranged for INET VASBY Pre-Production System:

INET Pre-Production test availability:
 

¹ Detailed test time schedules, maintenance windows and load patterns information will be communicated early April.

² To ensure customer readiness Nasdaq will publish an IT-notice with a status report that customers needs to fill in and send to technicalrelations@nasdaq.com. This is to inform Nasdaq the result of the test and to confirm your migration readiness status.

INET Test environment availability:
 

Genium INET
Genium INET (Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income and Commodities) at VASBY Data center will be in production state as of June 19^th. The first day of trading on Genium INET VASBY is June 20^th.
Genium INET VASBY is built on new hardware- and network infrastructure and has been assigned new destination IP addresses and TCP ports for Trading, Clearing front-ends and for other services accessed through Nasdaq Extranet.

Customers need to take necessary actions due to the changes of destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. The new destination IPs and ports can be found in the VASBY Connectivity Guideline for Genium INET. http://www.nasdaqomx.com/transactions/technicalinformation/data-center-relocation
Please note that destination IPs and ports will also be changed on Nasdaq Secondary Site.

Customers using FIX protocol have now received their individual pre-production ports details. If you haven’t received your new pre-production port details, please contact Nasdaq Member Services immediately: ms.gi@nasdaq.com, +46 8 405 6660.

To prepare for Genium INET production launch at VASBY Data Center the following activities will be arranged for Genium INET VASBY Pre-Production System:

Genium INET Logon tests in Pre-Production (April):
 

The login test will be available for members using Trading Workstation, Clearing Workstation1, 3^rd party applications using OMnet and FIX, GV Portal and Trade Guard.
The login test is to verify connectivity to Genium INET. No functional testing can be made during the login test period.
To ensure customer readiness Nasdaq will publish an IT-notice with a status report that customers needs to fill in and send to technicalrelations@nasdaq.com. This is to inform Nasdaq the result of the test and to confirm your migration readiness status.

To minimize member impact all users and passwords currently configured on the Nasdaq Genium INET Lunda systems will be configured on Genium INET Pre-Prod in VASBY.


Genium INET Acceptance tests in Pre-Production (May-June):
 

During the time period May 30 – June 4^th Nasdaq will arrange functional and non-functional testing activities. More information will be distributed in early April.


External Test Systems Information
 

Genium INET external test systems will be available for functional testing of the new Genium INET release going live June 20^th. This release does not contain any mandatory changes.


For questions or comments, please contact:

Riitta Pesiö
Data Center Relocation Project Manager
Riitta.pesio@nasdaq.com
+46 8 405 6437

Ronny Thellman
Member Readiness INET
ronny.thellman@nasdaq.com
+46 8 405 6313

Charlie Holmgren
Member Readiness Genium INET
Charlie.holmgren@nasdaq.com
+46 8 405 6944