In addition, the fiber lines will provide international video teleconferencing and high-speed facsimile service, which is growing among business users.
For less than $100, computer users can experiment with multimedia production or simple video teleconferencing without going up to their eyeballs in debt.
It would be the largest and most advanced private telephone network in the world, with such features as video teleconferencing.
A larger room for video teleconferencing is adjacent, with seating for 10 or 12 people around the table.
The engineers are proposing such conveniences as voice mail, video teleconferencing, and high-speed data transfer.
It plans to offer prospective tenants as "smart" a building as possible, with video teleconferencing and more.
The new machines, which the document said would begin appearing within three years, will help make possible speech recognition, foreign-language translation and video teleconferencing.
Of those services, video teleconferencing, for example, could minimize travel time and expense.
The new G.E. system would also contain electronic mail service and video teleconferencing.
"My gut tells me it will be some kind of video teleconferencing."