remote sim network delay

i am not clear about how simtrace2, specifically libcommon/source/card_emu.c seems to handle the network delay for remote sim response however, i dont understand how that would help ??? my understand of the protocol is that ME => SIM (first 5 bytes of APDU) SIM <=== PROCEDURE (either INS as ack, or 0x60 to hold up the protocol) but that does not help remote sim, as remote SIM would need the susequent bytes which will not come until we send back INS, so just holding off ME with 0x60 does not alleviate the problem of network delay