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Segment and Geographic Information - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013 Customer Segment	Dec. 31, 2012 Customer	Dec. 31, 2011 Customer
Segment Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments	2
Number of customers accounted for greater than 10% of total revenue	0	0	0
Product Revenue [Member]
Segment Information [Line Items]
Maximum percentage of revenue accountability	10.00%	10.00%	10.00%

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Number of customers accounting for more than ten percent of 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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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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