Field note: bandwidth is becoming a biomedical spec

Quietly, connectivity joined power on the list of utilities equipment depends on. Remote diagnostics assume it. Software updates assume it. Manual downloads, support sessions, inventory syncs, and every AI-era tool on the horizon assume it.

For facilities planning equipment capability, the implication is plain: assess connectivity like you assess power — capacity, reliability, dead zones (a workshop in a basement with no signal is a support desert), and a fallback plan for the offline weeks. Tools chosen for low-resource settings should degrade gracefully: offline-first inventory, asynchronous support channels, documentation cached locally.

No source list today; just a planning note from the field's direction of travel. The next generation of biomedical capability will be part wrench, part bandwidth — and the facilities that treat the second part as infrastructure will collect the benefits first.