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Prepaid Expenses and Other | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2020
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER | PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHERAs of the dates indicated, prepaid expenses and other are comprised of the following (in thousands):
| October 31, 2020 |  | November 2, 2019
Contract assets for unbilled accounts receivable | $ | 85,843 |  |  | $ | 84,046 |
Prepaid VAT and other taxes | 72,838 |  |  | 84,706 |
Prepaid expenses | 70,647 |  |  | 48,680 |
Product demonstration equipment, net | 44,793 |  |  | 38,900 |
Other non-trade receivables | 21,981 |  |  | 28,136 |
Capitalized contract acquisition costs | 11,296 |  |  | 11,677 |
Deferred deployment expense | 604 |  |  | 125 |
Derivative assets | 82 |  |  | 1,570 |
Restricted cash | — |  |  | 74 |
| $ | 308,084 |  |  | $ | 297,914 |
Depreciation of product demonstration equipment was $9.0 million, $8.8 million and $9.0 million for fiscal 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. For further discussion on contract assets and capitalized contract acquisition costs, see Note 2 above.

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