PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, April 8, 2010 - Black Box Corporation (NASDAQ:BBOX), an industry-leading provider of voice communications , data infrastructure , and product solutionsannounced today that one of its most exciting new products, Veri-NAC™, has received a 2010 Product Innovation Award from Network Products Guide.

This distinguished annual award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

A Veri-NAC™ network access control device protects networks from threats originating within the network. It’s an affordable one-box vulnerability management and NAC appliance that only lets authorized computers and devices onto a defined network. It can be used it to control who can connect to a network and protect against vulnerabilities that firewalls can’t prevent. The agentless and non-inline design requires no infrastructure upgrade. And it works with wired and wireless devices. Veri-NAC™ also offers tools for compliance with GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, ISO 27001, and other security and privacy standards.