Anthony J. Ley became chief executive in November 1988 after the creation of the company by co-founders Moshe Nazarathy, and Josef Berger.
On December 29, 2006 Omneon filed for an initial public offering,[8][9] and tried again several times in 2007[10][11] and 2008 after dropping the "Video Networks" from its name,[12] but remained private.
[20] The company supplies cable television headend or hub devices that receive digital video or data from the operator network, re-packetizes the video or data into an MPEG transport stream, then digitally modulates the MPEG transport stream onto a downstream RF channel using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM).
Customers outside the United States include Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Satellite TV, Capella Telecommunications, Globecast, Huawei Technologies, Klonex – VCS, Netorium, Rogers Communications, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Virgin Media, and Ziggo.
In late July 2017, Harmonic completed the acquisition of Thomson Video Networks that used to be one of its leading competitors in Europe and APAC.