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Number of single customers accounting for more than ten percent of annual sales.

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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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The amount of expense recognized in the current period that reflects the allocation of the cost of tangible assets over the assets' useful lives. Includes production and non-production related depreciation.

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Long-lived assets other than financial instruments, long-term customer relationships of a financial institution, mortgage and other servicing rights, deferred policy acquisition costs, and deferred tax assets.

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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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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.

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Segment Information and Major Customers - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) Segment Category Customer	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($) Customer	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($) Customer
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments \| Segment	2
Depreciation expense	$ 20,900	$ 12,000	$ 12,200
Number of categories \| Category	3
Number of single customer comprising more than 10% of sales \| Customer	1	1	3
Long-lived assets	$ 110,700	$ 55,800
Network Solutions [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Depreciation expense	3,200	1,200	$ 1,400
Services & Support [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Depreciation expense	10	14	$ 32
U.S. [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Long-lived assets	56,200	53,000
Outside U.S. [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Long-lived assets	$ 54,500	$ 2,800
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Customer 1 [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	10.40%	18.00%	15.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Customer 2 [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage			12.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Customer 3 [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage			10.00%
Sales Revenue, Net [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| The Five Largest Customers Other Than Those With More Than 10% Of Revenues and Excluding Distributors [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	33.00%	38.00%	34.00%