IEEE business meeting experiment with video teleconferencing

The authors report on IEEE's first, major business meeting experiment utilizing video teleconferencing facilities in cooperation with BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. The experiment utilized six, geographically-separate BellSouth sites (Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Nashville, New Orleans,and Orlando) having different teleconferencing facilities connected via T1-service. BellSouth's facilities were used to conduct the first meeting of 1993 of the Region 3 Executive Committee. A video tape of the meeting is archived in the Electrical Engineering History Center at Rutgers University.