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Canadian companies are the largest designers of optical components in the world.
More than 75 per cent of North American and 50 per cent of European backbone Internet traffic travels across Nortel Networks' optical communications equipment. More than 48 per cent of the Canadian population is now connected to the Internet compared to 43 per cent in the US and an average of 26 per cent across Europe. All Canadian schools were connected to the Internet by March 1999. For the consumer, MGI Software dominates the market for photo and video-editing software with its PhotoSuite and VideoWave products, whilst ATI Technologies and Matrox have a strong presence in the computer graphic card markets.