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Enter the Cisco 'Think Inside the Box' Developer Contest; US$100,000 in Total Prize Money for Winning Teams
Tuesday October 14, 2008 8:00 am ET
Develop Integrated Applications on the Cisco Integrated Services Router Using the Application Extension Platform
SAN JOSE, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 14, 2008 -- Cisco ( CSCO - News) -- Highlights / Key Facts:
- Cisco invites you to compete with the best developers
around the world
by participating in the Cisco
"Think Inside the Box" Developer Contest. Entrants have
the opportunity
to develop a proposal to build exciting applications for
the Cisco Application Extension
Platform
(AXP) platform on the Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR).
Cisco will
award a first prize (US$50,000), second prize (US$30,000)
and third prize
(US$20,000) to the person or team of innovators for the
most creative and
compelling entries. For judging criteria and complete terms
and conditions,
please visit: www.cisco.com/go/thinkinside.
- The Cisco "Think Inside the Box" Developer Contest opens
today, Oct.
14, 2008. The first phase involving proposal submission
ends on Jan. 12,
2009, after which up to 10 finalists will be chosen to enter
the second
phase to develop applications on the Application Extension
Platform.
Winners will be announced in May 2009.
- The Cisco "Think Inside the Box" Developer Contest is
sponsored by
Cisco Systems, Inc. and is open to individuals who are eighteen
(18) years
old or older at time of entry and who otherwise meet the
eligibility
requirements in the terms and conditions.
- Cisco opened its industry-leading access routing
platform to
third-party developers in April 2008 with the introduction
of the Cisco AXP, an open
Linux-based
hardware module for the Cisco
Integrated Services Router.
- The Cisco AXP offers tighter integration between the
network and
business applications to help branch-office customers achieve
greater
business efficiencies and innovation, further lowering the
Total Cost of
Ownership with the Cisco Integrated Services Router in the
branch.
- Cisco today also introduced the new Cisco AXP Network
Module 502, which
provides additional performance value for the Cisco 2800
and 3800 Series
ISRs (list price US$4,500). AXP v1.1 supports an emulated
development blade
utilizing the VMware player, this allows developers to build
applications
on their PCs, which can be ported onto Cisco AXP modules.
- Multiple applications are already available on the Cisco
AXP and today
Cisco introduced two new Cisco Technology Developer Program
AXP partners:
Global Protocols (satellite communications) and Tiani Spirit
(healthcare
imaging). Cisco is also pleased to announce that the Cardiovascular
Group,
P.C. has deployed Sagem-Interstar's XMediusFAX
facsimile-over-Internet-Protocol (FoIP) solution on the
Cisco AXP to help
employee productivity and help meet regulatory requirements
for a robust,
fast and reliable
HIPAA-compliant healthcare communication solution.
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Quotes:
- "We're looking forward to the creative and innovative
network-aware
applications and developing a vibrant third-party developer
community for
the popular Cisco Integrated Services Platform as part of
the 'Think Inside
the Box' contest," said Dave Frampton, vice president of
access routing for
Cisco.
- "Cisco Application Extension Platform has become popular
with
developers in just a few short months. We wanted to fuel
this interest
even further and to engage more developers in a fun way,
so we created this
contest to reward the best ideas with prizes totaling US$100,000,"
said
Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of network systems for
Cisco.
- "Cisco AXP-XMediusFAX FoIP is a green solution, since
it integrates
directly into our existing ISR, and does not require additional
cooling,
power consumption and rack space. In all, The Cardiovascular
Group
anticipates monthly savings of $3,000 in telecom and document
handling
costs," said Daryl Schweiger, Information Systems Manager
of The
Cardiovascular Group, P.C.
- "Not only does the Cisco AXP allow us to deliver our
SkipWare®
military satellite optimization software on a powerful networking
platform,
it has also vastly increased our competitiveness in the
military
communications market," said Nick Yuran, VP of business
development for
Global Protocols.
- "With improving technical capabilities in the sharing
of radiology
images and documents between physicians and labs, there
is a growing
interest in how to improve this process by reducing cost
and errors with
the all important goal of improving patient care," said
Martin Tiani, chief
executive officer, Tiani Spirit. "The Tiani Spirit applications
have been
in production for two years and were quickly and easily
deployed on the
Cisco AXP in one month, using mainstream open source technologies
such as
Jboss, Java and mySQL. The Cisco and Tiani approach delivers
an integrated
branch office solution for our healthcare customers that
is also based on
the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) specification."
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