OPRA Data Traffic, Bandwidth Projections to Double, Driven by Weekly Options, Volatility

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Andy Nybo, Tabb Group

The Options Price Reporting Authority has updated its projections for options data traffic and bandwidth requirements for 2012 and 2013, predicting that the number of messages per second and the bandwidth required to handle OPRA’s consolidated feed of US options quote and trade data will almost double by this July over figures for the same period last year.

Direct OPRA feed subscribers will need capacity to handle 10.2 million messages per second (mps) by July of this year—compared to the 5.26

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