A surgical hub within a surgical hub network may include a controller having a processor, in which the controller may determine a priority of a communication, an interaction, or a processing of information based on a requirement of a device communicating with the hub. The device may be a smart surgical device. The requirement of the surgical device may comprise data processed by a device component of an associated system The controller may prioritize communication of the data processed by the device component of the associate system with the surgical device. A network of surgical hubs may include a plurality of surgical hubs. Each hub may have one of a plurality of controllers, in which a first of the plurality of controllers is configured to distribute an execution of a process and data used by the process among at least a subset of the plurality of surgical hubs.