SoftEther Corporation

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SoftEther Corporation is a Japanese software company. It was founded as an industry-academia-government venture in April 2004 by Tsukuba University students, with the goal to develop the software of the same name, SoftEther VPN. The name indicated that a software emulates an Ethernet.

SoftEther VPN was written by Daiyu Nobori, who became the Representative Director and Chairman of the new company. In 2003, the software's development was adopted as one of the projects of the Exploratory Youth program, sponsored by Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan. "In addition to being highly evaluated by the project manager, there were 1 million downloads in three months after making it available at the website."[1]

The first SoftEther sales version was released in August 2004. With the second version of the software, released in December 2005, the name of the software was changed to PacketiX VPN 2.0.

In 2006, PacketiX VPN 2.0 won the "Software of the Year" award from the Information-Technology Promotion Agency.