What we do

At Weird Solutions we focus on the development of high-performance software for IP address management and device provisioning. We strive to provide our customers with products that are 100% standards-compliant and can easily be integrated with existing management systems. Software from Weird Solutions runs in more than 70 countries.

OEM-Ready

By focusing on the technology, we provide our OEM partners with affordable key components that are easily integrated with larger systems. Time-to-market is faster, and overall development costs are lowered.

Performance

Traditional core services such as DHCP, TFTP and Syslog that were designed to handle hundreds of simultaneous devices are now trying to handle hundreds of thousands. Our goal is to continue to deliver software that scales to meet the demands of world-wide connectivity.

Security and Stability

Stability and security are no longer optional in a network infrastructure. They're core requirements. Our software provides "instant-on" network provisioning and intelligent tools such as policy-based security. And they're rock solid, having been field tested in many environments worldwide.

Bud Millwood is the President & CTO of the company, and also its founder. A native from Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. Millwood began his software career in the US Air Force before moving to Sweden in 1993 with his Swedish family. Bud was later employed by the Stockholm city government's IT-division and held key a key position in delivering Internet services to  more than 30,000 users on the Stockholm Metropolitan Area Network in 1994. Bud has a strong background in networking protocols, with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and networking. He has been involved with the successful completion of numerous core protocol applications, including DHCP, TFTP, BOOTP, Syslog. He is an active and much-appreciated participant in the IETF Working Group for future development of core Internet protocols, including the DHCP standard.

Duena Blomström, Sales and Business Development Director, took on her exciting role at Weird Solutions coming from a renowned Nordic sales organization. After studying around the world from France to the USA, Duena returned to Bucharest, her home town, with a degree in Psychology and a degree in Business Administration. She has put her rare combination of skills to good use in working for such organizations as the Romanian Government, McDonalds Corporation, B&C Consult and TVR, all with spectacular results. Combining her experience of B2B sales, marketing and business development, in 1997 Duena founded and operated a successful software consulting company. At Weird Solutions Duena is responsible for all strategic decisions concerning Sales and Business Development.

Andreas Gasch, CFO, is responsible for the overall financial activities of Weird Solutions. Andreas brings more than two decades of knowledge with strategy and corporate development efforts. Mr. Gasch has formerly worked in Marc O´Polo's worldwide headquarters in Sweden, and prior to that he served as Senior Consultant/Auditor at Ohrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers (OPwC) in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Weird Solutions was founded in 1995 with the goal of creating networking software that's solid and scalable.

• 1995 TFTP Turbo released.
• 1996 BOOTP Turbo released.
• 1997 DHCP Auto for Windows 95 initial release.
• 1998 Syslog Turbo for Windows released.
• 2000 DHCP Turbo for Windows released.
• 2001 DHCP Turbo for Linux released.
• 2002 DOCSIS provisioning package released.
• 2002 DHCP Turbo for Solaris released.
• 2003 TFTP Turbo for Solaris & Linux released.
• 2004 Syslog Turbo for Solaris & Linux released.
• 2007 Broadband Provisioner 4.0 released.

Weird Solutions' first product, TFTP Turbo, has been called best in class by numerous companies.

"Congratulations for the quality, ease of installation and clear features, very efficient online help-system and documentation. We'd like that professionalism from all the other software product developers", ABB Robotics France

Weird Solutions' software has made the leap to many mission critical environments: airport control towers, launch systems, hard drive manufacturing, train positioning systems, subway operations, food processing plants and broadband Internet systems, to name a few.

Masayuki Kimata, an engineer for Maspro Japan (which develops RF-based communications equipment) said, "We adopted TFTP Turbo, which we found to have a low cost and provided very high speed operation. We also noted that TFTP Turbo consumed low amounts of CPU resources." TFTP Turbo has also made its appearance on numerous IT-industry "recommended software" mailing lists.

After TFTP Turbo, Weird Solutions moved forward to produce the logical follow-up, BOOTP Turbo. With an impressive set of features and high-speed servicing, BOOTP Turbo was enthusiastically received by many customers. BOOTP Turbo reinforced Weird Solutions' popularity in the network booting arena.

In 1996 Weird Solutions was approached by Ernst & Young's worldwide company headquarters in San Jose, California, and asked to produce a network address manager for Windows that would allow their mobile auditor workforce to create ad-hoc dynamic work groups using the industry standard TCP/IP protocol. Thus was born DHCP Auto, a unique technology combining both DHCP client and server. DHCP Auto was the world's first zero-config boot solution for TCP/IP on Windows. Before DHCP Auto, operator intervention was required when moving between client/server and peer-to-peer TCP/IP networks. DHCP Auto became a standard application on over 20,000 auditor's laptops for Ernst & Young world-wide.

Following the success of TFTP Turbo and BOOTP Turbo, Weird Solutions ventured into large-scale dynamic address management with its year-2000 release of DHCP Turbo. DHCP Turbo features impressive performance and flexibility, and has been widely acclaimed by customers.

"We needed a DHCP server that could handle more than 20,000 IP addresses, other DHCP servers would always crash under that load...DHCP Turbo has been great for us" says Masayuki Kimata at Maspro Japan.

The success of our TFTP, BOOTP and DHCP products helped Weird Solutions gain recognition as a premier developer of network and boot management software.

In 2002 Weird Solutions simultaneously released Syslog Turbo and Broadband Provisioner. With these initial product releases Weird Solutions launched a full-scale broadband provisioning platform aimed squarely at the increasing broadband access market.

In early 2004 Weird Solutions rolled out a full complement of broadband access software for Windows, Linux and Solaris.

In the end of 2007 Broadband Provisioner 4.0 was released. By seamlessly supporting IPv4, IPv6, DOCSIS 3.0, VoIP and IPTV in a highly scalable, 24/7 platform, this flagship product provides a solid growth path into the next century of technology for all clients in the highly demanding broadband market.

Weird Solutions has an experienced and competent development team that is committed to pushing the enhancement of these key network technologies.

Board of directors:	Bud Millwood Andreas Gasch
Business Activites:	Weird Solutions is focused on the development of high-performance address management and device provisioning solutions. We strive to provide customers with 100% standards-compliant software that can easily be integrated with existing management systems. Software from Weird Solutions runs in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Company Launched:	August, 1995
D&B Registration:	508867777
Ownership:	Privately held corporation