VRF is an extension of IP routing that provides multiple routing instances. It provides a separate IP routing and forwarding table to each VPN and is used in concert with MP-iBGP (Multi-Protocol internal BGP) between provider equipment (PE) routers to provide Layer 3 MPLS-VPN. However, ML-Series VRF implementation is without MP-iBGP. With VRF Lite, the ML Series is considered a PE-extension or a customer equipment (CE)-extension. VRF Lite is considered a PE-extension since its has VRF (but without MP-iBGP), and it is considered a CE-extension since this CE can have multiple VRFs and serves many customer with one CE box.  [...]

Do you remember the Cisco I-Prize contest, an open, global innovation contest developed to encourage collaboration among entrepreneurs and help identify new potential billion-dollar business ideas for Cisco? On June 29 2010, Cisco announced the winner of its second I-Prize competition. A team of five university students from Mexico submitted the winning idea of a ‘Life Account‘ that gathers information about users through connected devices in the physical world and online data available in the virtual world. The winners receive a cash prize of $250,000.

The The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has published two important vulnerability advisories: Vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Cisco Application Extension Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Cisco Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX or Unified CCX) contains a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability and a directory traversal vulnerability. These vulnerabilities are independent of each other. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in a DoS condition or an information disclosure.