Proposal Template for
Phase I of the Cisco Developer Contest

Important:

1.  If the Terms and Conditions of the Cisco Developer Contest are not expressly accepted during registration, your proposal will not be considered valid.

2.  Every member of the team MUST register individually and accept the terms and conditions.

3.  Team leader MUST submit proposal by Jun 30th 2009 to

Please enter proposal and team information here:

Title of proposal
Team Name
Team Leader

Please fill your personal information here:

Team Member 1
Name
Company
Address
Email
Phone
Fax
Team Member 2
Name
Company
Address
Email
Phone
Fax
Team Member 3
Name
Company
Address
Email
Phone
Fax

General guidelines to submitting the proposal:

●  Do not make your proposal too wordy. It is recommended to keep the proposal to a maximum of 6-8 pages

●  Use diagrams where necessary to provide additional clarity.

●  Align the proposal to practical applications that you are confident of developing if shortlisted for Phase 2 of the contest.

●  Where not applicable, please indicate “N/A”.

●  The preferred communication with Cisco for any questions is via e-mail. For any questions, please write to


Proposal Questionnaire

The following template is a general guideline for proposals to be submitted for Phase I of the contest. Please fill this template as applicable and email your submissions to

Solution Definition
●  Explain the concept or solution that you would like to develop on the Cisco Application Extension Platform.
●  What is the value proposition of your solution? What is the benefit of integrating this solution on a router? Please justify with examples or provide scenarios where applicable.
●  What are the typical deployment scenarios for your solution?
●  Do you know of any similar solutions on the market? If so, please list them and explain how your suggested solution is better or different.
●  List any future enhancements that could extend your solution beyond the scope of your proposal for contest.
Functional Description
●  Provide a solution-level and/or block-level architecture diagram with functional (hardware and software) components. Explain dependencies with existing and new components that you will be using for your solution. Specify any third- party applications or licenses that you will include.
●  AXP capabilities enable your application to make intelligent decisions based on network awareness. Specify any AXP APIs your application will use, and the intelligence your application will have. Use of AXP APIs is desired but not a necessary requirement.
●  Other than AXP capabilities, will your solution use any other Cisco ISR hardware or software solutions, such as 3G, security, unified communications, WAN optimization, or WLAN?
●  Specify minimum hardware and software requirement for your solution, such as Memory, CPU, Route Processor Modules [These are third party software like web server, databases, etc that can be installed on AXP or other Linux based systems]
●  What technical limitations, if any may limit implementation of your solution?
Supplementary Questions
●  Estimate the effort (in person-hours) necessary to develop your solution.
●  What level of technical support do you need or anticipate from Cisco?
●  Beyond the scope of this contest, will you be interested in collaborating with Cisco to develop your proposed solution?

References

●  Cisco Developer Contest Website

●  Cisco Integrated Services Router Overview

●  Cisco AXP Overview

●  Cisco AXP Developer Community