[Cisco Developer Contest] The Winners!
Today we are very excited to unveil the winners of our yearlong AXP developer contest. In this video, Sue Bostrom, executive vice president and chief marketing officer and Marie Hattar, vice president of Network Systems and Security Solutions at Cisco, announce the winners of the Cisco “Think Inside the Box” developer contest in this video.
Our talented judging panel chose the winners based on criteria of functionality, architecture, implementation and documentation of the application. What really impressed us with these winning applications though was the strong value proposition of their application, which stood out as the most innovative, creative and business impacting of all the submissions. The speed at which the finalist teams were able to take a concept and turn it into a fully functional network-aware application was very impressive as well. Some of these teams had never developed on a router before and in less than 90 days they were able to build truly innovative applications that address real market transitions and challenges
Here’s another look at the winning applications:
- Second Place: Winning $30,000, team Enhancers, led by Rajesh Kotagiri in India, for his application of the Local Advertising Mesh Network, which provides flexibility to local advertisers to new streams of advertising. The application leverages the Google AdSense network to create a distributed ad-serving platform hosted on the AXP. This platform will reside on routers spread across various branch offices.
- Third Place: Winning $20,000 team BugsBernie, led by Bernhard Beckmann in Germany, for his Integrated Surveillance System application. With this solution, existing IP phones can be turned on during non-working hours, to monitor any audio signals in the offices; a simple and cost effective means to enable a security solution in branch offices by leveraging existing network infrastructure.
Community Choice Award
In addition to announcing the official winners we also wanted to announce the winner of our online community choice contest. For the past couple weeks we have been asking our Twitter followers to vote for their favorite application on our website.
Congratulations to Team CampUser, led by Toshiyuki Sakata in Brazil. He developed the Locker for IP Telephony application that was chosen by our CiscoGeeks community as their favorite team!
This is the first time Cisco has asked developers to build applications for the AXP and we were overwhelmed by the response - we received 900 registrations and over 100 submissions from over 75 countries. We thank you all for participating in the contest and illustrating the power of the human network effect!
We wish all the finalists the very best, and thank them for what’s been a year long effort on their part. Look for more reviews around it in the coming weeks, and an exciting new announcement as part of the Borderless Network Experience on October 20th.
Shashi Kiran
Posted by Shashi Kiran at 12:08PM PST
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