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| Significant Customer and Geographic Information | Customers greater than 10% of net revenues for each of the periods presented are as follows: 
 * Represents less than 10% of the net revenue for the respective period. 
1   Includes sales to Motorola Home, which was acquired by Arris in April 2013, for all periods presented.
 
2   In November 2015, Technicolor completed its purchase of Cisco’s connected devices business. The revenue percentage did not include the 1% revenue percentage for Technicolor.
 Balances greater than 10% of accounts receivable are as follows: 
 * Represents less than 10% of the gross accounts receivable for the respective period end. Products shipped to international destinations representing greater than 10% of net revenue for each of the periods presented are as follows: 
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- Definition 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. No definition available. 
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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the nature of a concentration, a benchmark to which it is compared, and the percentage that the risk is to the benchmark. Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef 
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