About FastSoft
FastSoft was launched in 2006 to bring the benefits of Internet acceleration technology to businesses that rely on the transfer of large files over the Internet. The company’s core technology, FastTCP™, is based on research originally developed by FastSoft’s founders at the California Institute of Technology’s Networking Laboratory (Netlab).
In today’s broadband-powered world, the transfer of large files is seriously hindered by TCP, the protocol that governs more than 90% of Internet traffic. Companies that depend on the transfer of large files, especially video and large design files, lose valuable time and productivity waiting for data to download. FastSoft’s flagship E Series product line allows organizations to realize the full capacity of their Internet connections with a single-box appliance that overcomes the inefficiencies of TCP and does not require any hardware or software on the receiving end.
FastSoft was founded by Caltech professor Dr. Steven Low who, with his Caltech research team, developed FastTCP, which dramatically speeds the transfer of data through the Internet. This groundbreaking technology has been used to set world records at the Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge for the past four years. In 2005’s competition, FastTCP achieved a sustained throughput level of 101 gigabits per second, which is fast enough to transmit the entire contents of the Library of Congress in 15 minutes.
Based on this success in the lab, and with support from Caltech, Dr. Low and Dr. Jin launched FastSoft as a commercial venture in 2006.