Nasdaq Data Center Outage Disrupts US Equities Data Feeds

A network failure at Nasdaq's Carteret, New Jersey facility on Oct. 15 disrupted primary and backup quote feeds for Nasdaq, Nasdaq Texas and Nasdaq PSX. Trading continued uninterrupted, but incomplete price data complicated execution and post-trade reconciliation; customers were directed to Chicago backup feeds.

• Outage hit both primary and backup data feeds at the Carteret facility on Oct. 15
• Trading continued without interruption, but incomplete quotes complicated execution
• Affected customers were redirected to backup feeds from Nasdaq's Chicago site
• Nasdaq confirmed the intermittent gapping was resolved and systems ran normally