ACI ties to the physical container of the physical hardware of Cisco. It’s a Cisco-centric architecture. The best example would be for iOS, you need the iPhone, you can’t run iOS on an Android.

"You'll see some reference architectures that will be [VMware] NSX integrated and things like that where I don't know how much R&D they'll do around Cisco ACI and CliQr and that type of stuff ...