About SoftEther

Company history

SoftEther Corp. was founded as a industry-academia-government venture in April 2004 by Tsukuba University students, with the goal to develop the SoftEther VPN software. SoftEther VPN was written by Daiyu Nobori, who became the Representative Director and Chairman of the new company. The first SoftEther sales version was released in August 2004.

In November 2005, Plat'Home Co., Ltd. became the first sales partner for PacketiX VPN, and the following month the 2.0 version of the software was released, under the name PacketiX VPN 2.0.

In 2006, PacketiX won the "Software of the Year" award from the Information-Technology Promotion Agency Japan. In August 2007 the beta of the English version of PacketiX VPN was released.

• SoftEther Homepage (Japanese only)

SoftEther VPN and PacketiX VPN

The first VPN software by SoftEther Corporation was called SoftEther 1.0. It enabled users to construct a simple layer 2 VPN by installing a Virtual Network Adapter and Virtual Hub on Windows, and was distributed as freeware.

PacketiX VPN 2.0 is the next generation of SoftEther 1.0. The new version was designed from scratch and the code was entirely rewritten, so PacketiX VPN does not contain a single line from SoftEther 1.0. The main goal of the rewrite was to provide interchangeability and expandability of the code. The new name PacketiX VPN was introduced at the beta version stage.

Version history of SoftEther 1.0 and PacketiX VPN 2.0