Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the extension of its Application Extension Platform as well as a contest for developers to provide new applications. The Cisco AXP is an open, Linux-based hardware module for the Cisco Integrated Services Router. Its Linux-based integration environment comes with a downloadable software development kit. Cisco also announced two new AXP solution partners. Tiani-Spirit has developed AXP imaging formats for the healthcare industry to replace proprietary imaging formats for patient diagnosis and treatment.
