Managing distributed edge environments has become increasingly complex as organizations expand their AI workloads. Teams frequently face heightened downtime risks, rising operational complexity, and a critical lack of visibility during network outages.

To address these challenges, ZPE Systems, a brand of Legrand, announced the Nodegrid Net Services Router™ 2U (NSR 2U) at Cisco Live 2026. This next-generation x86 platform is designed to consolidate routing, network services, and out-of-band (OOB) management into a single, centrally managed system built specifically for distributed and edge infrastructure.

The NSR 2U represents the industry’s first platform to combine networking, edge AI, compute, and comprehensive recovery capabilities into a single system. This architecture ensures that infrastructure remains reachable and recoverable even during critical primary network failures.

By integrating intelligent issue detection with robust OOB management, the NSR 2U offers a highly resilient, future-ready foundation for secure, scalable, and automated operations.

In addition to NSR 2U, ZPE Systems introduced the NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR. Key features include:

• Direct Edge Inference: Enables organizations to run local AI inference and acceleration directly on the device.
• Reduced Complexity: Eliminates the need to deploy and manage external servers at remote sites.
• Backward Compatibility: Seamlessly integrates with both the original NSR and the new NSR 2U platforms.

“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,” said Vishal Gupta, Director of Product Management, ZPE Systems. “It’s the most capable Nodegrid appliance we’ve ever built, driven entirely by customer demand.”

The combination of the NSR 2U and the NVIDIA Jetson Expansion Card offers a significant advancement in performance, modularity, and serviceability. By bridging the gap between edge AI acceleration and infrastructure resilience, ZPE Systems provides a scalable solution that maintains business continuity during primary network outages.

Read the full announcement here.