Few other companies in Juniper's weight class are seeing strength with a management team that was largely assembled within the past three and a half years. Sure, Juniper's lost a few along the way, too: enterprise marketing mainstay Michael Banic went to HP Networking; Hayley Tabor, former senior vice president of U.S. enterprise sales, is now at Xirrus; Philip O'Reilly, tapped to run Americas enterprise sales, is now VP vertical markets at Brocade; Stephen Elop, former COO, went to Microsoft, and is now CEO at Nokia; and David Small, a veteran of Juniper's European channel, moved on to similar pastures at McAfee, just to name a few.

But the new lineup's done much to convince Juniper's partner community that Juniper means business. From CEO Kevin Johnson on down, here's a look at the team that's going to attempt to take Juniper to the next level.