1. A multimedia communications network capable of establishing predetermined voice, video, and data connections between two or more users, comprising: a plurality of multimedia ports connectable to a plurality of users capable of communication by way of voice, video, and data; a virtual meeting server in the network connected to the multimedia ports for creating and maintaining a circuit configuration in the network representing a controllably persistent virtual meeting room having predetermined user defined characteristics, the characteristics of the virtual meeting room being determined in response to commands from any one of the user terminals, the commands identifying a plurality of meeting participants and multimedia communications capabilities of each participant, the virtual meeting room comprising a virtual meeting room identification, a plurality of server descriptions, a meeting description, and a plurality of participant descriptions, the virtual meeting server having a means/br automatically associating a voice server, a video server, and a data server in the network with a meeting between a plurality of multimedia participants in response to at least one of the descriptions in the virtual meeting room; a voice server, responsive to the virtual meeting server, tbr transmitting and receiving voice signals to and from selected multimedia ports in accordance with the meeting and participant descriptions in the virtual meeting room; a video server, responsive to the virtual meeting server, for transmitting and receiving video signals to and from selected multimedia ports in accordance with the meeting and participant descriptions in the virtual meeting room; and a data server, responsive to the virtual meeting server, for transmitting and receiving data signals to and from selected multimedia ports in accordance with the meeting and participant descriptions in the virtual meeting room; the virtual meeting room being controllably persistent such that it can exist in the network independent of participants of a meeting being connected to the network.