The key to aligning Business goals with Network resources is to define and implement a set of policies that map Organizational and user goals and expectations with Specific Network Actions. To simplify this process, COHERENCE has designed the Policy-Based Networking Architecture that outlines a complete system for Policy Management. The Policy-Based Network System includes an intelligent approach that combines:

• A Centralized, distributed and hierarchical approach to network policy management using a directory database to organize the user, resource and general policy data.
  
• A standard approach to network policy enforcement that performs both localized and end-to-end policy enforcement approaches. Functionality such as Bandwidth Management, Server Load Balancing, Cache Enforcement, VPN, Firewall, Monitoring and Accounting can all be controlled using a single Policy derived from the Central Policy Manager.
• A complete system for defining High-level user and application concepts that can easily be translated to specific enforcement policies.
• QoS gateway and bandwidth management functionality to create a complete end-to-end system.

This system presents an overall integrated tool that allows Governments to organize their business concepts with specific network policy actions.