Building Smarter, Safer, and Simpler Networks for Islamic Schools Across Australia

Three leading Islamic schools across the Australia region set out to modernize their digital infrastructure, improve reliability, and give their IT teams the tools to support rapidly growing student populations. Three campuses needed a network that was simple to operate, secure by design, and capable of scaling without complexity:

• Al Amanah College in Sydney
• Glenroy Private in Melbourne
• Salamah College in Chester Hill

“The traditional layout and infrastructure, it was very hard to route cables between buildings and to get that network covered across the whole campus,” said Diaa El Rifai, IT Team Lead with Salamah College. “We have a limited team to service a lot of staff and devices.”

Across the three schools, IT teams were working with aging, traditional network designs that couldn’t keep up with modern learning environments or growing device usage. Key challenges included:

• Aging traditional architecture that made it difficult to route cables and achieve consistent coverage across distributed buildings
• An overload of work for the small school IT teams left managing large numbers of devices with limited diagnostic tools.
• Security and segmentation limitations that didn’t meet the requirements of the schools’ growth and safety initiatives.

The schools needed a modern, simplified network that reduced daily administrative burden while strengthening security and visibility. They ultimately chose Extreme Networks because:

• Fabric technology that dramatically simplified infrastructure and eliminated manual configuration.
• Full visibility of users, devices, and applications through a unified management platform.
• A responsive, easy‑to‑work‑with partner focused on long‑term success.

With Extreme, the schools deployed a consistent, secure architecture built on Extreme Fabric across both wired and wireless networks. This upgrade ultimately unified wired and wireless networks with centralized management, while offering better visibility and secure onboarding across all devices.

For Al Amanah, Glenroy, and Salamah alike, the results have been consistent across all schools:

• Smoother daily network operations and utomated network management
• Autosense capabilities to create plug-and-play functionality for devices across campus
• Secure, identity-based access for all users and devices across multiple campus locations for the schools.
• Stronger and more reliable wireless coverage that meant the end of classrooms struggling with getting Wi-Fi service.

“Extreme helped us transition to a more modern and better design," said Bilal Chami, IT Team Lead at Al Amanah College. “We deployed Extreme Fabric across our wired and wireless infrastructures. This allowed us to connect to four buildings across the campus and manage them all from one single platform.”

“This allowed us to connect to four buildings across the campus and manage them all from one single platform,” said Mohammed Kabbout, IT Team Lead at Glenroy Private of the change in the school’s aging network. “Our day-to-day IT operations are a lot smoother. It's allowed us to go from a port-by-port configuration to a plug and play secure solution.”

For IT team leaders like Diaa at Salamah College, the relationship with Extreme has been a key reason for the strong partnership. It’s a point others agree is vital to the ongoing shared success. “We like dealing with people that are easy to work with, Diaa said of the work with Extreme.

“Extreme has solved many problems,” echoes Bilal at Al Amanah College. “We now have coverage in classes that never had coverage.”

Learn more about Extreme’s solutions for K-12 schools by visiting our At-a-Glance Guide.