al de- scriptive complexity and requires a closer coupling between traditionally separate engineering and marketing and business modelling disciplines. Developing consistent descriptive methodologies that capture engineering and business value metrics helps the interdiscipline communication process. The challenge is to combine the language of engineering with the language of fiscal risk and opportunity. Descriptive domains provide a mechanism for promoting a more efficient and effective crossdiscipline dialogue - engineering Esperanto. 21.16 Differentiating Communications and Connectivity Value Tom Standage in his book, The Victorian Internet,2 explains how the electric telegraph deliv- ered 'network value' to the rapidly industrialising nations of the nineteenth century. In other 2 http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/. Future Trends, Forecasting, the Age of Adaptation and More Transformative Transforms work3 he identifies the role of coffee shops in the seventeenth and eighteenth century as centres for information distribution and social and information exchange. Customers were happy to pay for the coffee but expected information for free, free speech and free information as the basis for social, political and economic progress. In the twentieth and twenty first century, the same principles apply but the delivery options have, literally, broadened. Present economic growth can be at least partially ascribed to the parallel growth of connectivity bandwidth. Connectivity implies the ability to access, contribute and exchange information. Connectivity is a combination of voice-, audio-, text- image-, video- and data-enabled communication (the internet) but crucially includes access to storage bandwidth (the World Wide Web and the cloud). 21.17 Defining Next-Generation Networks So, noncontentiously we can say that next-generation networks are likely to be an evolution from present-generation networks and present-generation networks are, or will be, based on access to the internet and access 