Living (And Betting) On The Edge

By Matt Pillar, chief editor

Why Black Box Networks is going all in on edge-of-the-network solution sales and support, and how it plans to win there.​

Black Box Network Services division, where VP of Global Retail Markets, Jay Lanners, Sr., thrives, is effectively a mega-managed services provider, boasting 140 international offices supporting more than 3,500 primarily field service and engineering employees around the globe.

While the company identifies four key verticals for the provision of “edge” solutions — finance/insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail — the quickening pace of tech adoption in the latter is driving high expectations for Lanners’ group.