A new era of pervasive computing has accelerated demands for a system that can guard the Internet from rampant malware and other forms of sophisticated attacks. Lanner Electronics and Wind River®, two pioneers in hardware system architecture and embedded operating systems respectively, have brought their distinct expertise together to create the industry’s first performance-driven intelligent system for next generation network security. The system offers a full Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solution with integrated accelerator and advanced functions for Internet security in an application-ready platform. With stringent performance and hardware requirements analysis, this new breed of intelligent server system is rapidly becoming the central focus of the Universal Threat Management (UTM) industry.