Prepaid Expenses and Other

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2015

Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER

PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER

As of the dates indicated, prepaid expenses and other are comprised of the following (in thousands):

	October 31, 2014		July 31, 2015
Prepaid VAT and other taxes	$	86,464	$	86,113
Product demonstration equipment, net	42,385		42,469
Deferred deployment expense	27,991		24,238
Prepaid expenses	23,539		23,095
Other non-trade receivables	10,683		3,388
Derivative assets	1,562		5,837
	$	192,624	$	185,140

Depreciation of product demonstration equipment was $6.7 million and $7.3 million for the first nine months of fiscal 2014 and 2015, respectively.