Black Box Corporation Announces Expansion of Home Networking Technical Services; Expansion Market Will be Greater Chicago Area.Business Editors, High Tech Writers PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2002 Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) today announced the expansion of its technical services targeted at the home networking market--Black Box Home Networking. Initially, this new service was test marketed in the greater Pittsburgh Pittsburgh (pĭts`bərg), city (1990 pop. 369,879), seat of Allegheny co., SW Pa., at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers, which there form the Ohio River; inc. 1816. , PA area. Black Box is now introducing home networking technical services in Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. . A BLACK BOX(R) Home Network can include connections for any or all the following: computer, phone, cable/satellite TV, and audio. The primary benefit of a BLACK BOX(R) Home Network is to greatly enhance homeowners' high-speed Internet See broadband. access while reducing household expenses on Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. lines. With a home network, family members can access the Internet--simultaneously--from separate household computers over just one high-speed Internet access connection. This enables the homeowner to pay for only one Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the line instead of multiple lines for multiple family members. A BLACK BOX(R) Home Network can also include whole-house connections for phone, cable/satellite TV, and audio. Black Box offers networks that are wired, wireless, or a combination of both. Families will now be able to experience the same speed, accessibility, and reliability of a commercial or school network--all in the comfort of their own home. A BLACK BOX(R) Home Network can also reduce home computing computing - computer costs by enabling families to use one printer for all household computers. Families also gain the benefit of being able to share and transfer files electronically, and to play interactive games. Black Box's Desktop Computer Network Support provides homeowners with quick and easy access to home networking experts who can answer their questions. Whether the networking issue is hardware, or software-related, clients only make one phone call. "Our mission is to demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. home networking," says Brian Fitzgibbons, Manager, Black Box Chicago Office. "Today, the market in Chicago and nationwide is limited to a very fragmented frag·ment n. 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. group of local service providers. Now, Black Box is providing a residential service backed by worldwide experience in commercial network services and exceptional warranties. Black Box offers the homeowner a One-Source Solution for designing, installing, and maintaining a home network--and even includes Desktop Computer Network Support." Homeowners can call 312-808-5989 in Chicago, or 724-746-5500 in Pittsburgh, to schedule an in-home design consultation. Or they can log onto www.blackbox.com. 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. |
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