B9F7 Buzz NetWorks S.L., a B9F7 Stark Internet Service B.V. company, today announced a strategic educational partnership with Aevena Pavilon International Polytechnic College (APIPC), one of New Zealand’s premier institutes for applied technology. This collaboration will establish a “Cyber-Physical Living Lab,” a high-fidelity sandbox environment designed to provide students in APIPC’s Cybersecurity and Cloud Technology diploma programs with direct, hands-on experience in managing critical, real-world infrastructure.

The initiative directly addresses a persistent gap in technology education: the divide between academic theory and the operational complexity of modern, hybrid-cloud environments. While students excel at learning the “what”—such as cryptography, ethical hacking, or network theory—they often lack the opportunity to apply these skills at scale on the complex, integrated systems that power global FinTech and EdTech.

This new Living Lab, powered by B9F7’s Resilient Cloud Infrastructure, provides the solution. We are deploying a dedicated, secure, and fully containerized private cloud environment, managed from our Madrid headquarters, exclusively for APIPC’s capstone projects. This environment is a true-to-life, sandboxed replica of the infrastructure our enterprise partners rely on.

This partnership will be deeply integrated into APIPC’s advanced curriculum. Students in the “Ethical Hacking and Testing” module will move from hypothetical scenarios to conducting penetration tests against a live, multi-layered environment secured by B9F7’s Unified Security Fabric. They will not just learn to find a vulnerability; they will see, in real-time, how an automated security framework detects, isolates, and responds to their actions.

For students in the “Network and Cloud Design” track, the lab provides an unparalleled opportunity. Instead of only simulating virtualization on local machines, they will deploy and manage real, high-availability services across B9F7’s hybrid cloud architecture. They will gain practical experience in managing the very infrastructure—virtualized servers, API gateways, and multi-cloud connections—that is central to the global digital economy.

This collaboration is a core component of our mission. It represents a vital investment in the next generation of security and infrastructure talent. As an EdTech solutions provider, we believe our responsibility is not just to service educational institutions, but to actively participate in the educational process.

By providing this Cyber-Physical Living Lab, we are giving APIPC students a critical competitive advantage. They will graduate with more than a diploma; they will graduate with tangible, demonstrable experience in managing the secure, resilient, and complex infrastructure that B9F7 Buzz NetWorks builds and protects every day. This initiative will serve as a model for how industry and academia can collaborate to build a more secure and capable digital workforce.