Let me just say that I have never been impressed by the Mac's non-ability to integrate into a heterogeneous network.
These "virtual packets" allow heterogeneous networks to talk to each other using a common protocol.
Compute processes can be located on a single multiprocessor computer or distributed over a remote heterogeneous network.
Thus, remoting can also work across systems separated by an interconnection of heterogeneous networks, including the internet.
Moreover you can have heterogeneous networks of different processors all running co-operatively.
Especially in the beginning, it was a very heterogeneous, you know, all things were different, network that was built.
Bacula is an open source, enterprise level computer backup system for heterogeneous networks.
For more advanced environments and heterogeneous networks other modules may be part of the complete solution.
A description of heterogeneous social networks still remains an open question.
The problem, however, is the coexistence between these heterogeneous wireless networks.