The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 program. Since 2015, the WINS program has provided an immersive “hands-on” mentorship opportunity for early- to mid-career applicants in the IT field who are…
In partnership with Merit, Arizona State University, and the Marconi Society, The Quilt is offering a digital inclusion leadership certificate program. The course is intended to address the urgent demand for expertise in closing the digital divide. This Quilt-Merit certificate…
Hurricane Milton has passed and we are pleased to report the FLR network survived fully intact. And yet while the West Coast of Florida has suffered a terrible blow, it could have been even worse. A shift in the…
FLR is hosting three days of meetings beginning the afternoon of Tuesday, May 7, 2024, with our annual member meeting to be held at Nova Southeastern University. All FLR members and affiliates are encouraged to attend an afternoon of informative…
FLR recently bade farewell to Dr. Rick Burnette who earlier this month completed a two-year term as FSU’s representative on the FLR Board of Directors. Dr. Burnette, who served as Interim CIO at FSU from 2021 until just recently, will…
FLR hosted a series of meetings on UCF’s Orlando campus on May 1st and 2nd. The Board of Directors met for its quarterly meeting on the morning of May 1st followed in the afternoon by our first-ever All-Members meeting. The…
John Hall – Jack to all who knew him – passed away from a sudden illness over the December holiday break. Jack was one of FLR’s Chief Business Development Officers and one of our first employees, creating many of the…
The FLR Board of Directors held its most recent quarterly meeting on Monday, November 7, at Florida Institute of Technology. The visit was the first for the Board of Directors since Florida Tech joined as an equity member in 2004.…
Update 09/30/2022: Thank you to all who reached out with words of support and encouragement during the worst of Hurricane Ian. We are able to report that all FLR staff and the FLR network have come through well and services,…
400Gbps Establishes New International Standard for Research and Education Networking Tallahassee, FL, March 31, 2022 – Florida LambdaRail, LLC (FLR), Florida’s Research and Education Network, today announced it has completed a new 400 gigabits per second (Gbps) connection to Internet2’s…
Florida LambdaRail, LLC (FLR), Florida’s Research and Education Network, is pleased to announce that Jon Ellis has joined the company as its new CEO. Jon joins FLR after the previous CEO, Joseph Lazor, retired in December and at the culmination…
Internet2 recently unveiled its fifth-generation backbone, known as the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI). NGI interconnects with 37 state and regional networks and serves every state in the U.S. Among these 37 are the first five to upgrade to 400 gigabits…
After 10 years leading Florida LambdaRail through a series of achievements, CEO Joseph Lazor has retired, effective December 31, 2021. Prior to serving as CEO, Joe represented Florida State University on the Board of Directors and chaired the Finance Committee.…