Harmonic Lightwaves

Harmonic Lightwaves (now Harmonic Inc, NASDAQ: HLIT) is a pure-play broadband and video-delivery technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1988 as Harmonic Lightwaves. It builds virtualized broadband access (the cOS platform, Distributed Access Architecture nodes, and fiber-to-the-x solutions) and cloud-native video streaming and processing (the VOS platform and VOS360 SaaS). Harmonic exposes a VOS REST API for media management, packaging, DRM, live event and linear-TV workflows, publishes first-party client-side ad-tracking SDKs for iOS, Android and Roku on GitHub, and maintains a technical documentation library. Its developer surface is largely operator- and customer-facing rather than a self-service public developer program.

Harmonic Lightwaves is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Video Streaming, Broadband, and Media.

Harmonic Lightwaves’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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17.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 17.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

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Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

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APIReference

APIReference

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Operate 1

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Harmonic Lightwaves
description: 'Harmonic Lightwaves (now Harmonic Inc, NASDAQ: HLIT) is a pure-play broadband and video-delivery technology
  company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1988 as Harmonic Lightwaves. It builds virtualized broadband access
  (the cOS platform, Distributed Access Architecture nodes, and fiber-to-the-x solutions) and cloud-native video streaming
  and processing (the VOS platform and VOS360 SaaS). Harmonic exposes a VOS REST API for media management, packaging, DRM,
  live event and linear-TV workflows, publishes first-party client-side ad-tracking SDKs for iOS, Android and Roku on GitHub,
  and maintains a technical documentation library. Its developer surface is largely operator- and customer-facing rather than
  a self-service public developer program.'
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- Video Streaming
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- Ad Tech
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- type: Website
  url: https://www.harmonicinc.com
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  url: https://techlibrary.harmonicinc.com
- type: APIReference
  name: VOS REST API
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- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/harmonicinc-com
- type: Support
  url: https://www.harmonicinc.com/technical-support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.harmonicinc.com/insights/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.harmonicinc.com/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.harmonicinc.com/terms-use/
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- type: SDKs
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  url: packages/harmonic-lightwaves-packages.yml
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