San Jose (California): Cisco announced the winners of its "Think Inside the Box" developer contest. Team MAD network, led by David Perez, Spain won the contest, whereas Team Enhancers, led by Rajesh Kotagiri, India ended as the runner up. Started last fall, the contest challenged application developers around the world to develop applications that run on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), which resides on the popular Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR). The contest was launched to encourage collaborative development through the use of Web 2.0 technologies, promoting what Cisco calls the human network effect. More than 100 qualified teams from 75 countries entered the competition. The finalists demonstrated the business relevance of the AXP in solving real-world problems, in areas of unified communications, security, advertising, cloud architectures and energy management. The panel of seven judges narrowed the 100 submissions down to eight finalists. Team MADnetwork won the contest for the 'Building Automation Service application (BAS)'. Created with branch offices and multitenant units in mind, BAS helps businesses remotely monitor and manage building operations. Team Enhancers, a team from India, was awarded first runner-up trophy for the Local Advertising Mesh Network Platform (LAMP) application. LAMP creates a distributed ad-serving platform hosted on the AXP. Second runner-up was Team BugsBernie, Germany, led by Bernhard Beckmann. Team BugsBernie created an application for the Integrated Surveillance System. With this application, Internet Protocol phones can be turned on during nonworking hours to monitor any audio signals in the offices. When abnormal audio signal patterns are detected (crossing a configurable threshold), the application notifies external security services or devices such as mobile phones, computers and video monitoring systems. Winner was awarded $50,000, first runner-up - $30,000 and second runner-up - $20,000. After the award function, Marie Hattar, Vice President of Network Systems and Security Solutions at Cisco said, "This contest has proven to be a vibrant approach to sparking innovation. Finalists developed their applications in a span of 90 days with no formal training or router knowledge. With the Cisco Developer Network (CDN), this opens up a whole new way to engage the developer community as we expand on the vision of the network as a platform. We look forward to the CDN community being able to deliver more value to our customers by building more intelligence and capability into our routers."