BBOX Black Box Corp.

Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX) announced today that, beginning January 16, it is mailing the 2006 edition of the award-winning BLACK BOX(R) Catalog. Black Box, the world's largest infrastructure services provider, offers wired and wireless data and voice networking services and products along with its FREE 24/7/365 hotline Tech Support. The new 872-page catalog is aimed at IT personnel in businesses of all types and sizes as well as resellers. Customers will find 1300 new products in addition to the 118,000+ networking and communications products featured in the catalog and on the Company's website, www.blackbox.com. Black Box organizes its vast line into 15 different sections from Cables & Infrastructure through Networking products. The catalog also has three new sections: Wireless, Servers & Storage and Security products. A special section at the front of the catalog is devoted to New Services & Products, and focuses on Hot New Products in different technologies, the Company's Beat the Competition and other new pricing programs, Black Box's new Web site, Resale Services and more. In keeping with Black Box's long-standing tradition of educating its clients, the catalog features "Black Box Explains" tutorials, Buyer's Guides and a Technical Reference section, including a Glossary. Black Box, long known as the place to go for hard-to-find products, built its reputation on its 24/7/365 Tech Support hotline. Callers can get answers to technical questions--FREE--whether they buy or not. For clients who want on-site help, Black Box offers start-to-finish services from design through installation and maintenance. Black Box catalogs have earned numerous awards in recent years. In 2005, the BLACK BOX(R) Catalog won Multichannel Merchant magazine's top award, Catalog of the Year, for the second consecutive year. The catalog also took top honors in the Computer Equipment and Software category for the tenth year in a row. For your FREE copy of the 2006 BLACK BOX(R) Catalog, call us at 877-877-2269 or simply log on to the Black Box website at blackbox.com and click on "Request a Catalog." About Black Box Black Box is the world's largest technical services company dedicated to designing, building and maintaining today's complicated data and voice infrastructure systems. Black Box services 152,000 clients in 141 countries with 143 offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit the Black Box website at www.blackbox.com. Black Box and the Double Diamond logo are registered trademarks of BB Technologies, Inc.