Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX), an
industry-leading provider of voice communications, data
infrastructure, and product solutions, announced today that
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) has named the Black Box®
iCOMPEL™ digital signage appliance as a recipient of a 2008
Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award.
The Norwalk, Conn.-based TMC presents
the award to businesses that demonstrate vision, leadership, and
attention to detail, according to its recognition of Black Box’s
digital signage solution. TMC said it picks award recipients that
have brought “the most innovative products and services to market,”
and cited iCOMPEL as an “outstanding” contribution to the
communications industry.
“Black Box has been recognized with a 2008 Product of the Year
Award for their excellence in the advancement of voice, data, and
video communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group
Editor-in-Chief. “Black Box has proven they are committed to
quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer
experience as well as providing an attractive ROI for the companies
that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and
accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from
them in the future.”
The iCOMPEL family of browser-based, networked media
players/appliances provides businesses and organizations of any
size with an affordable, out-of-the-box solution for improving
internal and external communications through relevant, dynamic
digital signage. Black Box’s iCOMPEL can stream live TV, video,
Flash animation, and RSS news and stock ticker feeds, and other Web
media, as well as play audio. It enables either a local user or a
remote administrator to change information ad-hoc to generate
real-time messaging via local access or through a Web browser.
Black Box customers include businesses who utilize digital
signage to advertise, boost sales, and increase brand visibility,
as well as large corporations and government agencies who depend on
digital signs to disseminate up-to-date information to employees
and the public.
“iCOMPEL is also great for providing directions to visitors in
hospitals and other large institutions, and for setting up
emergency notification in schools and on college campuses,” said
Brian Kutchma, Director of Marketing for Black Box. “It’s also a
cost-effective digital signage solution for houses of worship,
libraries, museums, and any other organization that wants to
communicate real-time information to its audience.”
As an integrated hardware/software solution, iCOMPEL comes
preloaded with software for assembling and distributing HD-quality
multimedia content to digital signs. It includes drag-and-drop
tools for playing of stored and live media in multiple screen
zones, and menus for scheduling content distribution by time and
location. There are no software as a service (SaaS) fees, and
updates are free.
“Digital signage can potentially be a very expensive initial and
ongoing investment and, because of its complexity, it can be
difficult to integrate into an existing office or campus network,”
Kutchma said. “But our strategy with iCOMPEL was to make it an
affordable, easy-to-integrate solution that’s also scalable, so a
business can start with one screen in one location and expand to
1000 screens in 100 locations.”
In addition to iCOMPEL, Black Box offers an extensive line of
digital signage solutions that includes media players, extenders,
splitters, converters, and switches. All products are backed by
free, live, 24/7 Tech Support, which customers can reach at
724-746-5500 or at blackbox.com.
For more information on the iCOMPEL product line, visit
http://www.blackbox.com/go/iCOMPEL.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated
media company helping our clients build communities in print, in
person, and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction
Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN
Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and
articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet
is read by two to three million unique visitors each month
worldwide, according to Webtrends. TMCnet is ranked as 2,921
in Quantcast's Top U.S. Sites placing TMCnet in the top .03% most
visited Web sites in the US. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE
Conference, Digium|Asterisk World, and Communications Developer
Conference.
TMC’s Green Blog has been ranked on the “100 Best Blogs for
Those Who Want to Change the World.”
TMC also recently launched new industry-specific Web sites:
IT.TMCnet.com, Cable.TMCnet.com, Robotics.TMCnet.com,
Satellite.TMCnet.com, Green.TMCnet.com.
New services offered by TMCnet include the Tech Jobs site,
TMCnet iPhone News, and Facebook connections.
For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
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 175,000 clients in 141 countries with 192 offices
throughout the world. To learn more, visit the Black Box Web site
at http://www.blackbox.com.
Black Box® and the Double Diamond logo are registered trademarks
and iCOMPEL is a trademark of BB Technologies, Inc. Any third-party
trademarks appearing in this press release are acknowledged to be
the property of their respective owners.
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