Case Study: San Ignacio de Loyola School achieves 50%+ faster, more secure network with Fortinet

Coming Together to Ease Management and Improve Protection

San Ignacio de Loyola School, a historic K–12 institution in Medellin, Colombia serving over 2,125 students, faced an aging network and security architecture that could not keep up with rising user demand. The school’s legacy web filter, proxy and VPN setup caused congestion, poor VoIP performance and limited scalability, prompting a search for a modern, easy-to-manage security platform.

After evaluating vendors, the school selected Fortinet’s consolidated security architecture; Fortinet performed a diagnostic, designed and implemented a high-performance, integrated solution with bandwidth aggregation and Active Directory integration. The deployment boosted network performance by more than 50%, eliminated downtime, enabled per‑VLAN bandwidth control and granular web filtering, increased capacity for growth, improved user satisfaction and delivered measurable cost savings.

San Ignacio de Loyola

Álvaro Cifuentes

Coordinator of Information Technologies