Developed by 4Spiro within PPS5, MadCIX – Madeira Cloud IXP is the first regional Internet Exchange Point designed for low-latency gaming and cloud services, allowing networks on the island to exchange traffic locally instead of routing it through the mainland.

Since completion, MadCIX has moved into operation with its founding members. Over the summer, 4Spiro launched a public traffic dashboard and failure/performance alerting, registered the exchange with RIPE NCC (AS199667), reinforced the security of the peering LAN, published membership conditions and an incentive policy for new members, and studied interconnection with national and international IXPs. September closed with a maintenance window, repeated failover tests, an internal audit and technical compliance documents (AUP, connection rules and incident management).

The measurements show the benefit of keeping traffic local: 3 ms through the IXP, against 10 ms via transit through the mainland, with peaks of 500 Mbps in high season.

MadCIX is complemented by the Cloud IXP Toolbox – route servers, BGP, peering, monitoring and member portal – and by SOLVIT’s real-time Quality of Service platform.