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  Black Box Network Services is now your single-source provider of comprehensive communications, infrastructure, and product solutions.

The present, the future and the past


What started as a technology products catalogue company has grown to a $1 billion communications and infrastructure services provider. This growth enables us to offer you an unrivaled solutions portfolio and international footprint, all built on the foundation of our business-trusted technical advice and support.


The Present

Black Box Network Services is now your single-source provider of comprehensive communications, infrastructure, and product solutions.

Black Box today:

  • 175,000 clients
  • 194 offices serving 141 countries
  • More than 4500 Team Members worldwide
  • 4M ports maintained
The Future

As an independent solutions provider, we will continue to examine each new technology objectively and will seek out the best products and solutions to add to our extensive portfolio.

We are committed to uncovering new products and solutions that can help you solve your communications and infrastructure challenges, and we'll remain at the forefront of innovation through our long-standing relationships with technology manufacturers.

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The Past

2008 Black Box acquires AT&T’s Southeast Region NEC CPE Base; UCI Communications, LLC; and Mutual Telecom Services Inc.
2007 Black Box wins “Catalog of the Year” at the Multichannel Merchant awards for an unprecedented third time in four years.
Black Box exceeds the $1 billion revenue mark.
Black Box acquires ADS Telecom, Inc.; B&C Telephone, Inc.
2006 Black Box acquires the USA Commercial and Government, and Canadian Operations of NextiraOne, LLC, as well as Nu-Vision Technologies, LLC and Nortech Telecommunications Inc.
2005 Black Box wins “Catalog of the Year” at the Multichannel Merchant awards for the second consecutive year.
The product mix grows, and the company now offers more than 118,000 products in its catalogs and on-line.
Black Box acquires Norstan, Inc.; Converged Solutions Group, LLC; and Communication is World Interactive Networking, Inc.
2004 Black Box wins “Catalog of the Year” at the Multichannel Merchant awards.
2003 The number of Team Members hits 3000.
2002 BusinessWeek recognizes Black Box as one of the “Best 100 Small Companies.”
2001 The BLACK BOX® Catalog grows to 1488 pages.
2000 On-site capabilities expand to include telephony services.
1999 Black Box begins offering on-site data/infrastructure services in the United Kingdom. On-site services then quickly expand throughout Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Black Box is named one of the “200 Best Small Companies in America” by Forbes.
A new state-of-the-art distribution center opens at the Company’s headquarters in Lawrence, PA.
1998 Black Box offers its first on-site data/infrastructure services in the Pittsburgh, PA area.
Later that year, Black Box expands its on-site offerings to Florida.
1994 Black Box goes on-line and within the first two weeks, visitors from 36 companies visit the site.
1992 Black Box goes public.
1987 In recognition of continued outstanding export trade, Black Box earns the U.S. President’s “E Star Award.”
1982 The company changes its name to Black Box. 
1978 Product requests come in from around the world, and the company establishes the first of many international partnerships in Canada.
1977 The first BLACK BOX® Catalog rolls off the presses. It has six pages, contains nine products, and generates $170,000 in sales.
1976 Expandor, Inc. opens for business. Start selling connectivity devices, the little black boxes that clients need to connect their primary data communications products.


 
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