The U.S. General Services Administration announced it will establish virtual meeting centers at federal buildings across the United States.
When operational in early 2011, the centers will be available for use by all federal agencies at a fixed hourly rate, The centers will be built at each of GSA’s 11 regional headquarters offices in federal buildings in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., as well as four headquarters locations in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area.
The AT&T-operated centers will be specially constructed and equipped to provide live, face-to-face, immersive meeting experiences to all participants across the network.The network will allow any subscribing agency to meet with counterparts in any of these cities as well as with those in other telepresence-type networks nationally and internationally.
