Maybe there is something behind the suspicion that Juniper's getting ready to sell themselves. They clearly cannot take the quarterly Wall St. pressure any more. Product line is more on power points than reality.
Many seriously good people have either left in recent times or have been let go, keeping only the PALs (Personal A$$ Lickers) of upper management.
Now the erosion of inside sales points to getting rid of a major sales outfit. Pradeep the founder-member CTO is gone to have fun with Fungible. Jonathan has gone back to Cisco. Denise Schiffmann fired without a whimper.
Brocade's boss hired who fired Brocade into oblivion till they were sold off in bits and pieces. This may mean either going private and sort out serious issues with product life cycle management and GTM strategy and/or get to hedge funds under pressure from Elliott Mgmt board members and sale it in bits and pieces - which BTW, means way more brutal firing next round up.