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Prepaid Expenses and Other | 9 Months Ended
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Aug. 01, 2020
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):
| August 1, 2020 |  | November 2, 2019
Contract assets for unbilled accounts receivable | $ | 97,373 |  |  | $ | 84,046 |
Prepaid VAT and other taxes | 80,672 |  |  | 84,706 |
Prepaid expenses | 69,832 |  |  | 48,680 |
Product demonstration equipment, net | 44,803 |  |  | 38,900 |
Other non-trade receivables | 22,102 |  |  | 28,136 |
Capitalized contract acquisition costs | 9,015 |  |  | 11,677 |
Deferred deployment expense | 671 |  |  | 125 |
Derivative assets | 467 |  |  | 1,570 |
Restricted cash | — |  |  | 74 |
| $ | 324,935 |  |  | $ | 297,914 |
Depreciation of product demonstration equipment was $6.5 million during the first nine months of fiscal 2020 and 2019. For further discussion on contract assets and capitalized contract acquisition costs, see Note 3 above.

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