SSIX is the digital meeting point between Sicily, Sardinia, and the rest of the world, located in Olbia at SIPORTAL’s Gallura Data Center, designed to provide high-performance interconnections for operators, businesses, and institutions.
Who we are
SSIX (Sicily & Sardinia Internet eXchange) is a regional Internet Exchange Point hosted at the Gallura Data Center in Olbia, created to enable network operators to exchange IP traffic through neutral peering, with high-capacity and low-latency connections. Born from SIPORTAL’s experience in telecom infrastructure, SSIX is integrated into a network connecting nodes in Lentini, Olbia, and Milan via a 100 Gbit/s fiber ring, ensuring redundancy and service continuity.
Our mission
SSIX’s mission is to bring Sardinia and Sicily closer to the global Internet, offering a local exchange point that improves performance, reduces transit costs, and fosters the digital development of the region. Our goal is to create an interconnection ecosystem where providers, carriers, content providers, cloud services, and public administrations can meet in a neutral, secure, and reliable environment.
What makes us unique
SSIX is the first IXP in Gallura and is integrated with the Gallura Data Center, serving as a regional digital hub connected to submarine cables and fiber backbones linking Sardinia to the mainland and Europe. The combination of local infrastructure, next-generation submarine links, and partnerships with national and international operators brings multi-terabit capacity and enterprise-level interconnection services to Sardinia.
Our ecosystem
Around SSIX, an ecosystem is growing, involving ISPs, telecom operators, CDNs, OTTs, companies, public entities, and innovative organizations that want to leverage proximity to the exchange for faster and more resilient digital services. Through local peering, these actors can optimize traffic routes, improve user experience for critical applications, and help retain digital value and expertise within the region.
Looking to the future
SSIX is designed as an evolving platform, ready to expand with new nodes, capacities, and interconnection services to support cloud, edge computing, and ultra-low latency applications. Our vision is a Sicily and Sardinia increasingly interconnected, where choosing to stay or invest locally no longer means sacrificing international-grade connectivity and performance.