ZPE Systems (a brand of Legrand) announced the Nodegrid Net Services Router™ 2U (NSR 2U). This modular, next-generation x86 platform consolidates routing, network services, and out-of-band (OOB) management. Additionally, it provides a single, centrally managed system for distributed and edge environments.
Currently, organisations are expanding AI workloads across edge and distributed environments. As a result, infrastructure teams face growing operational complexity, rising downtime risks, and limited visibility during outages. Therefore, the NSR 2U addresses these challenges directly. It combines networking, AI acceleration, compute, and integrated out-of-band management into a single resilient platform.
NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR
Alongside the new platform, ZPE Systems is introducing the NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR. This Jetson AI Module is compatible with both NSR and NSR 2U platforms. Consequently, customers can run edge AI inference and acceleration directly on the device at the edge. Furthermore, this eliminates the need for external servers or added operational complexity.
Overall, the NSR 2U represents a significant leap in performance, modularity, and serviceability. Thus, it provides organizations with a future-ready foundation for secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure operations.
For example, the combination of AI acceleration and integrated OOB management enables smart problem detection. In addition, the infrastructure remains reachable and recoverable during failures. By setting a new industry standard, this solution is the first platform to combine networking, edge AI, compute, and recovery in one system. Therefore, it provides a resilient, AI-ready solution. Ultimately, this setup keeps infrastructure running during primary network outages.
“Our customers are managing increasingly complex remote sites with minimal on-site staff,” said Vishal Gupta, Director of Product Management, ZPE Systems. “Consequently, they told us they needed a single platform that could do it all from anywhere. The NSR 2U is that platform. Furthermore, with the NVIDIA Jetson Expansion Card, it brings AI-powered network operations to the edge. Truly, it’s the most capable Nodegrid appliance we’ve ever built, driven entirely by customer demand.”
A New Standard for Edge, Cloud, and Data Center Infrastructure
The NSR 2U is purpose-built to consolidate networking, compute, and management. As a result, this single platform is capable of running diverse workloads across edge, cloud, and data center environments. Specifically, it supports a wide range of functions. These include high-performance switching, security services, WAN optimization, containerized applications, and resilient out-of-band access within a unified system.
Its 2U architecture features 10 expansion slots, upgraded compute, and a next-generation switching fabric. Therefore, it gives organizations the flexibility to build and scale infrastructure based on their exact requirements. In this way, teams can easily avoid overprovisioning or deploying multiple appliances. Consequently, this makes the NSR 2U ideal for distributed enterprises, retail locations, remote offices, service providers, and converged infrastructure (CI) deployments.
AI at the Edge: Introducing the NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR
The newly launched NVIDIA Jetson AI Expansion Card for NSR brings GPU‑powered intelligence directly into the Nodegrid ecosystem. Because it is designed for both the NSR and NSR 2U platforms, this card enables customers to run AI/ML workloads where they matter most. For instance, these workloads run close to data sources, users, and critical infrastructure.
In particular, this new module allows organisations to:
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- Run real‑time inference for security analytics, anomaly detection, and predictive maintenance.
- Deploy AI‑driven automation for network optimisation and event correlation.
- Process video, sensor, and telemetry data locally to reduce cloud dependency.
- Consolidate AI, networking, and OOB management into a single, compact platform.
By integrating NVIDIA Jetson into the NSR architecture, ZPE Systems eliminates the need for separate edge AI devices. Thus, this integration reduces cost, complexity, and power consumption. Furthermore, it enables resilient, AI-driven infrastructure operations. These operations remain completely manageable and recoverable, even during major network outages.
With the NSR 2U and NVIDIA Jetson, ZPE Systems is redefining infrastructure operations for the AI era. Ultimately, they achieve this by bringing networking, intelligence, and resilience together into a single platform.
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 organisations 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.
