Black Box Receives Network Products Guide 2010 Product Innovation Award

Sept. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, April 8, 2010 — Black Box Corporation , an industry-leading provider of voice communications , data infrastructure , and product solutions announced today that one of its most exciting new products, Veri-NAC™, has received a 2010 Product Innovation Award from Network Products Guide.

This distinguished annual award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

A Veri-NAC™ network access control device protects networks from threats originating within the network. It’s an affordable one-box vulnerability management and NAC appliance that only lets authorized computers and devices onto a defined network. It can be used it to control who can connect to a network and protect against vulnerabilities that firewalls can’t prevent. The agentless and non-inline design requires no infrastructure upgrade. And it works with wired and wireless devices. Veri-NAC™ also offers tools for compliance with GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001, and other security and privacy standards. For more details and to purchase, see www.blackbox.com/go/Veri-NAC.

“The 2010 Product Innovation Award from Network Products Guide confirms our commitment to developing new and innovative solutions to meet our customers’ technology needs,” said Terry Blakemore, President and CEO of Black Box. “Especially in the area of NAC, we are dedicated to making IT solutions as straightforward as possible without sacrificing security and control.”

“Innovation is not just about new products alone,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. “To succeed, companies need to see innovation not as a one-time errand, but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. This requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of the company’s way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as Veri-NAC™ are bringing improvements in network access control and security.”


Contact: Black Box Corporation
Gary Doyle
Director – Investor Relations
Phone: 724-873-6788
E-mail: investors@blackbox.com

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Black Box is a leading technical services company dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining today’s complicated data and voice infrastructure systems. Black Box services more than 175,000 clients in 141 countries.