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Concentration of Credit Risk (Details) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified		3 Months Ended									12 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 25, 2014 Customers	Oct. 25, 2014 Customer Concentration Risk Five Unnamed Customers	Oct. 26, 2013 Customer Concentration Risk Five Unnamed Customers	Oct. 25, 2014 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk AT&T	Oct. 26, 2013 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk AT&T	Oct. 25, 2014 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk CenturyLink	Oct. 26, 2013 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk CenturyLink	Oct. 25, 2014 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk Comcast	Oct. 26, 2013 Sales Revenue, Services, Net Customer Concentration Risk Comcast	Oct. 25, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk AT&T	Jul. 26, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk AT&T	Oct. 25, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk CenturyLink	Jul. 26, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk CenturyLink	Oct. 25, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk Comcast	Jul. 26, 2014 Trade Accounts Receivable and Costs and Estimated Earnings Customer Concentration Risk Comcast
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of customers classified as highly concentrated	5
Concentration risk percentage		59.40%	57.20%	21.20%	17.50%	13.10%	15.50%	12.80%	10.50%	18.50%	17.90%	10.80%	9.80%	10.60%	9.90%
Accounts receivable, costs, and estimated earnings in excess of billings										$ 100.3	$ 87.6	$ 58.2	$ 48.2	$ 57.1	$ 48.9

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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. This also includes the amount included in cost of uncompleted contracts in excess of related billings, or unbilled accounts receivable.

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The number of customers classified as highly concentrated in comparison to total revenue.

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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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