Company Background from FTP Software

A Rich History of Technical Excellence

FTP Software has a rich history of providing TCP/IP networking products for the PC.

As participants in the PC-IP project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, the founders of FTP Software were among the original developers to bring TCP/IP to the PC and Intel processor.

In the early 1990s, FTP pioneered TCP/IP networking over Microsoft Windows as coauthors of the Windows Sockets specification. The PC/TCP product brought full functionality to Windows users in 1991.

Today, in 1995, FTP Software is the award-winning, number-one provider of TCP/IP networking for PCs. A company of 500 with over 100 developers, FTP has the largest independent TCP/IP for PC development and support staff in the industry. FTP also offers custom product development to meet enterprise needs, and is pleased to provide customers with system consulting and integration services.