Company type | Private |
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Industry | |
Founded | 2011; 13 years ago (2011) |
Founder | Adam Ierymenko |
Headquarters | Irvine, California, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Adam Ierymenko (CEO) |
Products |
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Website | zerotier |
ZeroTier, Inc. is a software company with a freemium business model based in Irvine, California. ZeroTier provides proprietary software, SDKs and commercial products and services to create and manage virtual software-defined networks. The company's flagship end-user product ZeroTier One is a client application that enables devices such as PCs, phones, servers and embedded devices to securely connect to peer-to-peer virtual networks.
Developer(s) | ZeroTier, Inc. |
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Stable release | 1.14.0 / May 2, 2024; 7 months ago (2024-05-02) |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Linux on ARM |
Type | SD-WAN, P2P, VPN |
License | Business Source License (Free for personal use. Enterprise pricing available); formerly GPLv3 |
Website | https://www.zerotier.com |
Software tools
ZeroTier markets proprietary tools, which are licensed under a Business Source License 1.1, intended to support the development and deployment of virtual data centers:
In 2021, the product line consists of the following tools:
- ZeroTier One, first released in 2014, is a portable client application that provides connectivity to public or private virtual networks.
- Central, a web-based UI portal for managing virtual networks.
- libzt (SDK), a linkable library that provides the functionality of ZeroTier One but that can be embedded in applications or services.
- LF (pronounced "aleph"), a fully decentralized fully replicated key/value store.
Client
The ZeroTier client is used to connect to virtual networks previously created in the ZeroTier Central web-based UI. Endpoint connections are peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted. STUN and hole punching are used to establish direct connections between peers behind NAT. Direct connection route discovery is made with the help of a global network of root servers via a mechanism similar to ICE in WebRTC.
Controller
Virtual networks are created and managed using a ZeroTier controller. Management is done using an API, proprietary web-based UI (ZeroTier Central), open-source web-based.
Packages
ZeroTier One is available on multiple platforms and in multiple forms:
- Microsoft Windows installer (.msi)
- Apple Macintosh (.pkg)
- iOS for iPhone/iPad/iPod
- Docker
- IoT Stack
- Source code on GitHub
- Linux binaries (DEB & RPM)
- Linux snap package (works across distributions)
- Linux library
- Arch Linux community package
- Android App on Google Play
- Qnap (.qpkg)
- Synology packages (.spk)
- Western Digital MyCloud NAS EX2, EX4, EX2 Ultra (.bin)
- FreeBSD has a port and a package
- OpenWRT has a community-maintained port on GitHub
- MikroTik's RouterOS
- Teltonika Network's RutOS
- DynFi, a Dynamic Firewalls solution
See also
References
- "ZeroTier, Inc". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
- ^ ZeroTier One
- ""ZeroTier" that allows you to connect Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS with VPN without difficult setting". GIGAZINE.net.
- "Peer-to-peer-based VPN alternatives". Linux-Magazine.com.
- Goethals, Tom; Kerkhove, Dwight; Volckaert, Bruno; De Turck, Filip (October 21–25, 2019). Scalability evaluation of VPN technologies for secure container networking (PDF). 15th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2019. Halifax, Canada.
- "Release VERSION 1.14.0: · zerotier/ZeroTierOne". GitHub.
- "LICENSE.txt". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
- "Release VERSION 0.9.2: · zerotier/ZeroTierOne". GitHub.
- pandada8 (2021-08-18), zt-panel, retrieved 2023-02-02
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - key-networks (2023-02-02), ztncui - ZeroTier network controller user interface, retrieved 2023-02-02
- ZeroTier Docker container page
- IoTStack page
- ZeroTier One Google Play Store page
- "ZeroTier One VPN configuration RutOS - Teltonika Networks Wiki". wiki.teltonika-networks.com. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
External links
- Zerotier Fix Unofficial open-source ANDROID client app