Harmonic Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells video infrastructure products and system solutions worldwide. Its products enable customers to create, prepare, and deliver a range of video and broadband services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and smart phones. The company operates in two segments, Video and Cable Edge. The Video segment sells video processing, and production and playout solutions and services to cable operators and satellite and telecommunications Pay-TV service providers, and to broadcast and media companies, including streaming new media companies. Its video processing solutions include network management software and application software and hardware products, such as broadcast and distribution encoders, contribution encoders, multiscreen transcoders and stream processing products, content preparation and delivery for multiscreen applications, decoders and descramblers, and management and control software. This segment's video production platforms consist of video-optimized storage and content management applications, which provide broadcast and media companies with file-based infrastructure to support video content production activities, such as editing, post-production, and finishing; and video playout solutions, including media orchestration software, are based on scalable video servers used by broadcast and media companies to create and playout television channels. The Cable Edge segment offers cable edge solutions and related services, including Narrowcast Services Gateway products primarily to cable operators. In addition, the company provides technical support and professional services, such as program management, technical design and planning, building and site preparation, integration and equipment installation, end-to-end system testing, and training. Harmonic Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
+14% move this morning SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - September 01, 2016) - Harmonic (HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that it has broadened its VOS™ software-based media processing portfolio based on the successful integration of several Thomson Video Networks' technologies. Featuring the Harmonic PURE Compression Engine™, VOS software unifies the media processing chain, from ingest to playout, graphics, branding, compression, packaging and delivery, for broadcast and multiscreen applications. VOS media processing enables pay-TV operators and broadcasters to simplify workflows, maximize flexibility and gain unprecedented operational efficiency while delivering pristine video quality on every screen.
