Black Box Corporation Awarded $1.6 Million Contract to Wire Schools in Massapequa, New York.Business & Technology Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2000 Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) today announced that its New York-based operation, Black Box Network Services Tri-State, has been awarded a contract with the Massapequa Union Free School District in Massapequa, Long Island, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The contract is for wiring the district's elementary school elementary school: see school. buildings for computer usage and Internet access See how to access the Internet. . The work will consist of installing a structured cabling Structured Cabling is defined as building or campus telecommunications cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements (hence structured) called subsystems. system and local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) in six separate elementary school buildings. This new system will provide high-speed Internet access for computers in classrooms, computer labs, and libraries. In addition, each building will be wired for a LAN. A LAN, a shared network within a building, enables collaborative work between teachers and students in different locations. To provide optimum performance and reliable, high-speed Internet access, the new structured cabling system will consist of fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power and the latest technology in copper cable. This new system will provide the school with the cabling backbone to support its current and future high-speed networking needs. David Mahler, President of Black Box Network Services Tri-State, said, "It's exciting to see a district make the effort to provide Internet access for every elementary student. This project is not just for the computer labs or libraries. Every classroom in the district will be wired for computer and Internet access." Black Box is a leading worldwide technical service provider of network services and related products to businesses of all sizes, servicing 132 countries throughout the world. |
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