I really wonder how the plan to virtualize all the network equipment. With VMWare (and others) you had a fixed set of OS'es that mostly assumed a homogenous x8

I really wonder how the plan to virtualize all the network equipment. With VMWare (and others) you had a fixed set of OS'es that mostly assumed a homogenous x86 platform to run on. But this seems to be the opposite. You have a (very) heterogeneous physical layer and with a homogeneous software layer. Anyone have any details on this? I work at a telco with very heterogeneous network, we have to run a lot of separate and expensive (b/c of oracle/solaris licensing) management software to make this all work. So this is obviously interesting to me.