Connected Care: Eskaton’s Updated Networking Infrastructure Supports Residents and Staff

As reliance on streaming services and other internet-dependent devices grew among residents of Eskaton’s affordable housing communities, a networking upgrade was sorely needed.
What the organization had installed over a decade ago met the needs of the time, says Therese ten Brinke, executive director of innovation and impact, but now they needed to adapt to changing expectations for high-speed internet. 
“Even the idea of having many devices in an apartment was this foreign concept 10 years ago,” she says. “When we initially decided we were going to pursue a tech-enabled apartment, we had to…