PaaS (platform as a service) featuring computer software platforms for providing SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networks), cloud-delivered SD-WAN, firewall security protection, cloud-delivered firewall protection, business edge computing, business gateways, edge computing, and remote access over telecommunications networks to control, configure, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage wide area and local area networks all via the temporary use of physical and virtual network components; providing a software platform to telecommunication network operators, subscribers, access providers, and service providers for managing, supporting, controlling, and configuring network traffic and network security in connection with telecommunications networks