Pliant Technologies debuted its CCU-08 CrewCom Control Unit; the latest addition to the CrewCom system and gives users the ability to use up to eight 4-Wire ports while retaining all the same features of the current companion CCU-22 and CCU-44 products.

Like the current Control Units, the CCU-08 Control Unit contains no radio and is frequency agnostic and can therefore “control and monitor any device across CrewNet regardless of radio frequency bands being utilized,” according to the company. With the combination of CrewCom Radio Transceivers, the new CCU-08 supports up to 82 Radio Packs, 18 in Normal mode and 64 in the recently released High-Density mode, across all RF bands.

Pliant Technologies says the CCU-08 is designed for broadcast, larger production/events, rental houses, large theatre productions and house-of-worship applications. The latest CrewCom firmware update includes the recently released High Density mode feature, as well as support for the new CCU-08.  Additionally, the company says the latest update includes several enhancements; including faster configuration file (CCF) upload speeds and a new Radio Pack paired list that allows the user to view and manage, in a single location of the software, a list of all Radio Packs paired to each Control Unit.