Nasdaq Blames Network Issues for Friday Options Data Outages

The first set of outages in the morning and early afternoon each lasted about a minute or less, while an outage later in the afternoon lasted almost 12 minutes. The first incident, at 11:06am, lasted 17 seconds and affected the Nasdaq Options Market and PHLX. The second, at 11:07am, lasted 40 seconds and affected its ISE, GEMX (formerly ISE Gremini) and MRX (formerly ISE Mercury). The third outage at 1:31pm lasted 62 seconds. Nasdaq blamed a networking issue in its datacenter for the disruption