Case Study: Faith Lutheran College Redlands achieves safer e-learning and 50% lower firewall management time with SonicWall

Greater pupil engagement, greater network security

Faith Lutheran College Redlands in Australia, a K–12 school serving about 1,100 students and 160 staff, needed stronger, easier-to-manage firewall protection to support growing e‑learning and BYOD initiatives while keeping students safe. After experiencing slow changes, poor reporting and unreliable features with a managed service, the college chose SonicWall, deploying SonicWall NSA 5600 next‑generation firewalls in a high‑availability cluster with SonicWall Global Support Services.

SonicWall’s deployment delivered deep packet inspection with a 20% reduction in network latency, cut help‑desk calls by 30%, and reduced firewall management time by 50%, while enabling staff to resolve web‑access issues in minutes rather than hours. The SonicWall solution also provided content filtering and application control to safely support heavy classroom use of Office 365 and YouTube, increasing staff and student satisfaction and overall IT productivity.

Faith Lutheran College Redlands

Andrew Daddow

IT Systems Manager