 In July 2011 , a few months prior to Muglia 's last day at Microsoft , Juniper Networks announced it would hire Muglia as the executive vice president of its software division . He reported to then Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson , who ( along with other Juniper staff ) is also a former Microsoft executive . Muglia was hired to consolidate Juniper 's software groups under a new division called Software Solutions . He also helped develop Juniper 's software @-@ defined networking ( SDN ) strategy . 
