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Services agreement expiration date.

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Amount due from customers or clients, within one year of the balance sheet date (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer), for goods or services (including trade receivables) that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Significant Customers - Additional Information (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 29, 2017 USD ($) Customer	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) Customer	Sep. 29, 2017 USD ($) Customer	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($) Customer	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($)
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 74,039	$ 78,065	$ 226,566	$ 247,401
Accounts receivable, net	$ 66,409		$ 66,409		$ 71,355
Number of major customer \| Customer	0	0	0	0
Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Services, Net [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue percent	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%	100.00%
IBM [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 18,600	$ 24,400	$ 57,900	$ 75,500
Extended period of services agreement			2 years
Services agreement expiration date			Dec. 31, 2019
Accounts receivable, net	$ 21,200		$ 21,200		28,000
IBM [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Services, Net [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue percent	25.10%	31.30%	25.50%	30.50%
SDI [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue	$ 8,400	$ 8,600	$ 27,200	$ 25,200
Accounts receivable, net	$ 5,200		$ 5,200		$ 5,600
SDI [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Sales Revenue, Services, Net [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Revenue percent	11.30%	11.00%	12.00%	10.20%