Mancala Networks provides an easy to integrate, scalable, real-time network service control and management platform that enables mid to large sized enterprises to more easily control, manage and monitor their distributed network infrastructure. The Mancala Network Controller consolidates all existing network services to create a global network intelligence framework. This shared intelligence enables the Network Controller to exercise real-time policy control and to provide more visibility to network administrators than any product on the market today. It is an agile network enabler that makes existing IP networks more dynamic and automated, resulting in better managed, more secure and better monitored distributed network infrastructures - all for a drastically lower total cost of ownership. The processes optimized by the Network Controller include IP address management, network access and usage control, mobility management, network discovery, network inventory, and automated VoIP device management.