CME Group defines a Disaster Recovery (DR) event as the transfer of the CME BrokerTec EU or US production environment to the CME BrokerTec EU or US DR environment due to failure or abnormal termination of the production environment. This topic describes possible DR scenarios and the disaster recovery recommendations available to CME and CDN Connectivity customers referred to herein as Connectivity Customers.
CME Connectivity includes; GLink – Secaucus and Slough, LNet, EConnect NY5, EConnect NY4/NY5, EConnect 111 8th Ave/165 Halsey, Globex Hub – Aurora, Slough, London, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong and Client INTERNET Link.
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Below are high level diagrams of BrokerTec US and EU normal operation and failover scenarios where CME Group identifies a scenario that would initiate DR procedures for Connectivity Customers:
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Diagram 1 depicts normal operations with connectivity services connecting to production platforms.
Diagram 2 depicts an event where BrokerTec US Production Platform is off-line and Disaster Recovery is invoked, customers activate US DR IP addresses and connect to BrokerTec’ US DR location, Aurora - DC3.
Diagram 3 depicts an event where BrokerTec EU Production Platform is off-line, Disaster Recovery is invoked, customers activate EU DR IP addresses and connect to BrokerTec’s EU DR location, Secaucus – NY5.
Diagram 1 - Normal Operations
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Diagram 3 - BrokerTec EU market event and fail-over
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CME Group Data Center Environments
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The following table details the scenario for scenario for which the Connectivity Customers must be prepared.
Disaster Scenario | Availability | Description | CME Responsibility | Customer Responsibility |
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Scenario 1(above) |
| Customer has lost connectivity to CME BrokerTec EU or US Front-end Services Production environment. | CME initiates CME BrokerTec EU or US Front-end DR procedures. | Customer must reconnect to CME BrokerTec EU or US Front-end DR environment using DR IP Addresses and Ports. |