The rumours which were spreading since a few days have been confirmed today: Juniper has hired David W. Yen. In a press release, Juniper provides details about the role Yen will have at Juniper. As Executive VP, Emerging Technologies, Yen will assemble a talented engineering team and lead the company’s emerging technology initiatives. Before joining Juniper, Yen served as executive vice president of the Microelectronics group at Sun overseeing the company’s developments in network, cryptography and high-performance computing. On the bad side, Yen has been linked to some of the delay of some UltraSPARC projects and also wasn’t very successful in improving Sun’s role in the storage business during hsi time as head of that division.

At Juniper, Yen will be a member of the executive management team, reporting directly to Scott Kriens (Chairman and CEO).