Overview
Fahan School, a K–12 independent all-girls school in Hobart, Tasmania, began working with ASI Solutions in 2023 to modernise its entire digital ecosystem. This strategic partnership set out to enhance cybersecurity, introduce modern workplace tools, and progressively integrate emerging technologies like AI into the classroom. As part of this digital transformation, the school identified its ageing ICT infrastructure as a critical barrier to progress.
Fahan, with ASI’s support, set out to replace its legacy systems with a resilient, future-ready foundation designed to support reliable connectivity, reduce complexity, and enable long-term innovation.
Challenge
Fahan School’s traditional on-site datacentre had reached its limits, becoming complex to manage, expensive to maintain, and prone to performance issues. With critical systems approaching end-of-life, the school needed a solution that would eliminate downtime risks, reduce operational overhead, and deliver measurable cost savings.
The goal: a resilient, future-ready ICT environment with 99.99% uptime, simplified infrastructure, and a projected $200,000 cost saving over five years.
However, achieving this meant overcoming several hurdles, including shifting internal mindsets, securing board-level approval, and coordinating a multi-vendor implementation across a live school environment.
Solution
To address its infrastructure challenges, Fahan School engaged ASI Solutions to lead a comprehensive ICT transformation. Working in close collaboration with HPE Networking, the project began with several detailed planning sessions to architect a solution tailored to the school’s performance, reliability, and scalability needs.
The project also included the installation of 96 single-mode fibre cores linking campus buildings, providing high-speed, future-proof connectivity. To further enhance uptime and performance, dual geographically distinct internet links, supplied by different providers and carriers, were deployed via SD-WAN, ensuring robust, redundant connectivity across the network.
Results
The transformation has significantly strengthened Fahan School’s ICT infrastructure, while reducing complexity. Fahan IT Staff have fewer distinct vendor devices to learn and manage, and can instead focus on a single vendor, HPE, and master their product line through 2 portals. With 99.99% uptime now standard, downtime concerns have been eliminated.
The simplified infrastructure has reduced operational complexity and ongoing electrical costs. Importantly, the school projects a 27% cost saving, equivalent to $200,000, over five years compared to renewing legacy hardware and services.
The ICT team has been freed from reactive maintenance and can now focus on strategic innovation, ensuring the school is well-positioned to adapt and grow with confidence.
Some of the key outcomes include:
