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Smule taps Agora SD-RTN for holiday live singing

Agora announced that Smule, a social singing app, will utilize Agora's Software-Defined Real-time Network (SD-RTN) to enable its users to live stream and sing together virtually. This partnership aims to provide Smule users with a seamless, low-latency experience, particularly during the holiday season.

Key Takeaways

Smule will use Agora’s Software-Defined real-time Network (SD-RTN) for virtual group singing.
Agora says the SD-RTN will give Smule users a zero-lag experience during holiday carols.
The partnership is framed as a live streaming use case for a social singing app, not a general video platform rollout.

Why It Matters

For Smule, the immediate impact is a lower-latency live streaming path for users singing together virtually during the holidays. For Agora, the deal extends SD-RTN into a social music use case, adding another real-time media workload to its streaming stack. The key signal to watch is whether Smule’s holiday carol streaming runs on SD-RTN without visible lag, since that is the specific performance claim in the announcement.