the city became an important hi-tech centre. dec was one of the pioneer technology companies in kanata. the dec campus has been successively digital, compaq, and is now hp. kanata remains home to many of the major hi-tech employers of ottawa, such as mitel, march networks, alcatel-lucent, dell canada, hewlett-packard, smart technologies, norpak, nortel, mds nordion, breconridge, amcc, and cisco systems, inc.. the hi-tech industry is clustered along march road, in the kanata north business park and kanata research park, and along eagleson road, in the kanata south business park.