In 1976, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone established video conferencing, netmeeting, VC between Tokyo and Osaka for their own use. No new, netmeeting, technology develops well, and video conferencing had more than its share of bumps along the way before the fastener communications commonly used nowadays. In June of this year, the combined successfully DARTnet transcontinental IP network of more than a dozen research sites in the United States and Great Britain and T1 trunks. However, it is the only viable VC system available PictureTel VC hit the market in 1986 and it is substantially cheaper 80,000, with 100 per hour lines.