With Juniper Networks benefiting from the news of their $17 million funding of Contendo, as well as the recent partnership with OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games and applications, it seems as though Juniper’s recent financial troubles may come to an end.  Aside from these very formidable outcomes, people seem to be jumping to their side of the grid.

Juniper Networks shook things up when Nawaf Bitar, former vice president of engineering and operations for Cisco’s security technology business unit and Christopher Hoff, former director of the Security Technology Business Unit of Cisco’s cloud and virtualization solutions business were reeled into Juniper.

But things seem to be just getting started, as two new additions were made, one from Honeywell the other from Dell.

Bask Iyer is Juniper’s new senior vice president and CIO, responsible for Juniper’s critical information, intellectual property and physical technology resources, and tasked with putting the IT resources in place to support Juniper’s growth. Iyer spent 11 years at Honeywell, where he was most recently CIO, and before that worked for GlaxoSmithKline Beecham, Johnson & Johnson and CTS.

Martin J. Garvin is Juniper’s new senior vice president of manufacturing operations, in which he’ll be responsible for Juniper’s global supply chain and manufacturing strategy. Garvin comes to Juniper from Dell, where he managed various aspects of Dell’s global supply chain and procurement processes in different executive positions. Before his 11 years at Dell, he held leadership positions at NetEdge Systems, Logitech, Sun Microsystems and HP.

On a related note, a few other companies in the industry have also made changes in their roster of executives. Some of Sony Computer Entertainment’s top executives have retired and some reshuffling was done, while HP also suffered a number of their  top executives’ left the firm.

With all these changes from different companies, you’d have to ask, “What is Cisco, Juniper Networks’ number one contender, doing?” They’ve had a few top-level shake-ups of their own this year, but are trying to focus more on understanding and providing what the customers and partners want.  Hopefully, Cisco can get through the layoffs and back to business.  It will be an opportunity for Juniper while Cisco bleeds more.