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


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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 England, the largest and most populous portion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1991 pop. 46,382,050), 50,334 sq mi (130,365 sq km). It is bounded by Wales and the Irish Sea on the west and Scotland on the north. .

The award was announced at the awards ceremony at the Networks Telecoms 2002 Exhibition in Birmingham Birmingham, cities, United States
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 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 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.
 (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 blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth through which light can penetrate.  for others to follow. Congratulations to the whole team."

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 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.
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