Black Box Network Services UK Wins Britain's Coveted Industry Prize for Innovation

Business Wire, July 9, 2002

Business Editors

Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) today announced that its subsidiary company in the United Kingdom, Black Box Network Services UK, has won the prestigious UK Network Industry Award 2002 in the category of "Most Innovative Use of Technology" for its work on a wireless network at the Jeff Joseph Technology College in England.

The award was announced at the awards ceremony at the Networks Telecoms 2002 Exhibition in Birmingham, England on 25th June 2002. Networks Telecom is the principal conference / exhibition for computer networking in the United Kingdom.

Jeff Joseph Technology College enjoys a UK wide reputation for excellence in the adoption of new technologies for educational advantage and has been working with Black Box Network Services UK on a project to build a wireless computer network. The first stage of the project was to build a wireless network within the boundaries of the college campus. The second phase of the project, due to start soon will lead to the design and build of a much bigger wireless network so that the college can also be a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) for the local community.

David Walmsley, Headmaster of the College said, "Winning this award with Black Box is very exciting for us. It is a real demonstration of the determination shown by the college to make the best possible use of technologies. What we have learned from the wireless projects will be used as a blueprint for others to follow. Congratulations to the whole team."

Leslie M. Fernandes, Managing Director of Black Box UK operations said, "Winning this award is a testament to the way Black Box people add real value to networking technology. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide our customers with real knowledge and an in-depth understanding of what can be done to help them achieve their ambitions in all the infrastructure technologies."

Black Box is the world's largest technical services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining today's complicated network infrastructure systems. Black Box services clients of all sizes in 132 countries throughout the world.