Axient® Digital PSM Channel Licenses
 
Discover the groundbreaking Axient® Digital PSM, now with Channel Expansion and more flexibility — explore new capabilities and manage your perpetual channel licenses.
 
Benefits of Channel Expansion for Axient® Digital PSM
Users will see many benefits from the addition of Channel Expansion. Following are the two major advantages of channel expansion for Axient Digital PSM:
Cost Savings of Some Axient Digital PSM Configurations
Flexibility to Manage Your Perpetual Channel Licenses As Needed
Cost Savings of Some Axient Digital PSM Configurations
The first advantage is that channel expansion can potentially reduce the cost of the total multichannel Axient Digital PSM hardware configuration for customers that don’t need access to the highest RF output power to maximize total physical coverage.
Channel expansion for Axient Digital PSM is enabled on the transmit side, and all transmitters operate with a fixed amount of RF output power driven by the power amplifier section. When multichannel wideband was previously limited to a single radio, that radio was able to take advantage of all the power amplification resources per transmitter. With channel expansion, each multichannel wideband radio now must equally share the same power amplifier section resulting in lower RF output power, which affects distance performance.
There are also operational presets available to balance half the channel expansion with spatial diversity to achieve a good balance of extended channel count and sufficient coverage. This type of configuration can provide significant value as a compact, high-density wireless in-ear monitoring solution. 
At the same time, there may be less challenging environments like houses of worship or isolated broadcast studios where neither spatial diversity nor higher RF output power is necessary. In these environments, all you would need for a successful Axient Digital PSM configuration would be a single transmitter device, the additional required channel expansion licenses, and the relative number of transmit antennas patched directly from the transmitter’s RF outputs. 
Flexibility to Manage Your Perpetual Channel Licenses As Needed
Axient Digital PSM channel licenses are perpetual, not subscription licenses. Once purchased, not only do you own them outright, you manage them based on your needs via your ShureCloud account. You can add and activate channel licenses to an Axient Digital PSM transmitter easily and/or you can transfer channel licenses from one Axient Digital PSM transmitter to another. They’re yours! Use them as needed. 
For example, if a single site eventually needed eight channels instead of four channels, and the coverage requirements for those eight channels were not extreme, it would be convenient to simply purchase, add, and activate additional channel expansion licenses instead of needing to purchase additional hardware.
Similarly speaking, if for example, you own two Axient Digital PSM transmitters and 12 channels of channel licenses, you can add six channel licenses to each or four to one and eight to the other. You can also deactivate channel licenses from one Axient Digital PSM transmitter and activate in the another. Again, your Axient Digital PSM channel licenses give you an incredible amount of flexibility to maximize your in-ear monitoring setups.