Greg Enright

The negative effects of giant

The Cisco machine rolled into Toronto earlier this month for a presentation to a few hundred of its Canadian customers.

The terrorist attacks carried out in New York and Washington on Sept. 11 could have wide-ranging effects on both the Canadian telecom and networking markets.

The effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York

The terrorist attacks carried out in New York and Washington on Sept. 11 could have wide-ranging effects on both the Canadian telecom and networking markets, as well as on the development of new network security and management technologies.

The major problem for Cisco is that UM technology is so closely tied to the telephone system, a realm in which the company is not exactly steeped in tradition.

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Now that the Internet has largely pervaded corporate desktops across Canada, managers are faced with a significantly new wrinkle in the thankless task of managing their staff: cyber-slacking.