ZPE Systems announced 2U infrastructure systems combining Nvidia Jetson acceleration, networking, and resilience features.

At Cisco Live 2026, held June 1, 2026 in Las Vegas, ZPE Systems, a brand of Legrand, announced the Nodegrid Net Services Router™ 2U (NSR 2U), a modular, next-generation x86 platform that consolidates routing, network services, and out-of-band (OOB) management into a single, centrally managed system for distributed and edge environments. As organizations expand AI workloads across edge and distributed environments, infrastructure teams face growing operational complexity, rising downtime risks, and limited visibility during outages. The NSR 2U addresses these challenges by combining networking, AI acceleration, compute, and integrated out-of-band management into a single resilient platform that detects issues intelligently and remains reachable and recoverable during failures.

The NSR 2U is purpose-built to consolidate networking, compute, and management into a single platform capable of running diverse workloads across edge, cloud, and data center environments. Its 2U architecture, combined with 10 expansion slots, upgraded compute, and a next-generation switching fabric, gives organizations the flexibility to build and scale infrastructure based on their exact requirements without overprovisioning or deploying multiple appliances. The platform supports a wide range of functions, including high-performance switching, security services, WAN optimization, containerized applications, and resilient out-of-band access, all within a unified system. Setting a new industry standard, the NSR 2U is the first platform to combine networking, edge AI, compute, and recovery in one system.

Alongside the new platform, ZPE Systems is introducing the NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR—backward compatible with both NSR and NSR 2U—enabling customers to run edge AI inference and acceleration directly on the device at the edge without adding external servers or operational complexity. By integrating NVIDIA Jetson into the NSR architecture, ZPE Systems eliminates the need for separate edge AI devices, reducing cost, complexity, and power consumption while enabling resilient, AI-driven infrastructure operations that remain manageable and recoverable even during outages. The GPU-powered intelligence brings AI and ML workloads to where they matter most: close to data sources, users, and critical infrastructure.

Vishal Gupta, Director of Product Management at ZPE Systems, stated: "Our customers are managing increasingly complex remote sites with minimal on-site staff and told us they needed a single platform that could do it all from anywhere. The NSR 2U is that platform — and with the NVIDIA Jetson Expansion Card, it brings AI-powered network operations to the edge. It's the most capable Nodegrid appliance we've ever built, driven entirely by customer demand." The NSR 2U is ideal for distributed enterprises, retail and remote locations, service providers, and converged infrastructure (CI) deployments. Legrand, the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, reported sales of €9.5 billion in 2025 and is listed on Euronext Paris as a component stock of the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, and CAC Transition Climat indexes.