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Black Box Corporation was founded as Expandor, Inc. by Eugene Yost and Richard "Dick" Raub, and offered printer switches popularly called "black boxes". It published a popular "Black Box Catalog" which was the basis of changing its name to Black Box Corporation in 1982. Another division, Interlan, sold local area network equipment.

The telecommunications product business was split into a subsidiary called Micom Communications Corporation. The Micom Communications unit was spun off, and acquired by Northern Telecom in June 1996.In May 1997, Black Box Corporation’s board of directors announced that it authorized management to buy back the company's stock, depending on market prices and other factors.

In 1998, the company started offering on-site data and infrastructure services in the United Kingdom, which expanded throughout Europe and Pacific Rim.

The profitable catalog sales business moved from Simi Valley in California to Lawrence, Pennsylvania and changed its name to Black Box Incorporated.From 2000 to 2010, Black Box Corporation formed partnerships in the USA with key IT service providers, including Cisco, Avaya, NEC, and Unify. There were about 120 acquisitions overall.

Rebranding

In January 2019, AGC Networks Limited acquired Black Box Corporation.Black Box became a wholly-owned subsidiary of AGC Networks.In 2021, AGC Networks Limited changed its name to Black Box Limited.