The need for remote collaboration has spiked during the pandemic and many video chat applications have seen tremendous growth in their user base. However, the popular solutions are not applicable for musicians and artists due to their latency. For that reason, the interest in the LoLa system increased greatly. The solution proposed by Italian researchers a few years ago enables true real-time remote teaching and collaboration experiences for musicians and artists by offering extremely low round trip delay of the transmitted data. However, an adequate high performance and specialised hardware and a high capacity, reliable, error free and symmetric fiber connection are required for the system. Since the fiber technology is becoming both more advanced and more accessible, more and more universities and other institutions are able to use this interesting type of application for master classes, remote rehearsals and performances. With the current situation, the use of LoLa system and the traffic with extremely low latency requirement should be increasing.

Further reading:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40050-6_21.pdf

https://www.lightreading.com/opticalip/fttx/podcast-low-latency-broadband-powers-michigan-music-masterclass/v/d-id/767624

https://lola.conts.it