This chapter defines, compares and contrasts the principal types of distance interpreting (DI), tracing back their history and development. Half a century after the first experiments with simultaneous interpreting in 1926, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) used satellite technology allowing their interpreters at headquarters in Paris to provide interpretation for their General Assembly in Nairobi in 1976. Around the same time, telephone interpreting started to gather traction in Australia and the United States. Since then, the use of different distance interpreting modalities has grown and almost become the norm in some interpreting settings, such as legal and medical interpreting. In multilingual conference interpreting, however, modalities such as remote interpreting are only now making inroads into the field. This development has been accelerated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic that has heavily impacted the way in which people interact, including in the realm of multilateral diplomacy. This chapter describes DI in terms of its implications on the conference interpreter’s workplace, workspace and task demands and concludes with a critical discussion of its potential as well as its shortcomings.