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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Balance Sheet Related Disclosures [Abstract]  
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET COMPONENTS
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consist of the following:
 
 
 
As of December 31,
 
 
 
2016
 
2015
 
 
 
(in thousands)
Deferred sales commissions, current portion (Note 1)
 
 
$
2,932

 
$
3,484

Prepaid expenses
 
 
2,032

 
2,950

Other
 
 
1,006

 
1,179

Total prepaid expenses and other current assets
 
 
$
5,970

 
$
7,613


Property and Equipment, net
Property and equipment, net consists of the following:
 
 
 
 
As of December 31,
 
 
Estimated Useful Lives
 
2016
 
2015
 
 
 
 
(in thousands)
Computer and other equipment
 
3 years
 
$
1,920

 
$
1,704

Manufacturing, research and development laboratory equipment
 
3 years
 
4,314

 
4,476

Software
 
2 to 5 years
 
8,217

 
8,470

Office furniture and equipment
 
3 to 7 years
 
2,070

 
1,041

Leasehold improvements
 
shorter of useful life or lease term
 
1,008

 
614

Property and equipment, gross
 
 
 
17,529

 
16,305

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization
 
 
 
(8,521
)
 
(7,149
)
Property and equipment, net
 
 
 
$
9,008

 
$
9,156


Software category includes the capitalized internal-use software for the Company's cloud service platform. In April 2015, the Company completed and launched the next generation of its cloud services platform, and began to amortize these capitalized costs to cost of software subscription and services revenue on a straight-line basis over an estimated useful life of the software of five years.
Depreciation and amortization expense was $3.5 million, $3.5 million and $2.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.
Office furniture and equipment classified under capital lease at December 31, 2016 was $1.2 million and the related accumulated depreciation was $0.2 million.
Other assets
Other assets consist of the following:
 
 
 
As of December 31,
 
 
 
2016
 
2015
 
 
 
(in thousands)
Deferred sales commissions, non-current portion (Note 1)
 
 
$
3,115

 
$
3,254

Investment in privately held company
 
 
1,500

 

Other
 
 
485

 
426

Total other assets
 
 
$
5,100

 
$
3,680


In January 2016, the Company paid $1.5 million in cash to purchase a convertible note issued by a privately held company, which provides Wi-Fi application and analytics. The Company currently has no voting rights, investor rights or significant influence over the privately held company. The convertible note has been recorded at carrying value. Since the convertible note has no readily determinable market value, the Company has categorized it as a Level 3 asset in the fair value hierarchy. As of December 31, 2016, the fair value of the convertible note approximated its carrying value. The Company did not recognize an impairment for the year ended December 31, 2016, as there were no identified events or changes in circumstances that might have a significant adverse impact on the carrying values of the investment. Since the convertible note has a two-year contractual term and the Company does not intend to liquidate it in the next 12 months, the Company has classified the convertible note as other assets on the consolidated balance sheet.
Accrued Liabilities
Accrued liabilities consist of the following:
 
As of December 31,
 
2016
 
2015
 
(in thousands)
Accrued compensation
$
7,230

 
$
9,410

Accrued expenses and other liabilities
1,445

 
1,801

Warranty liability, current portion
625

 
645

Total accrued liabilities
$
9,300

 
$
11,856


Deferred Revenue
Deferred revenue consists of the following:
 
As of December 31,
 
2016
 
2015
 
(in thousands)
Products
$
1,220

 
$
3,199

Software subscription and services
64,684

 
56,063

Total deferred revenue
65,904

 
59,262

Less: current portion of deferred revenue
31,727

 
27,893

Non-current portion of deferred revenue
$
34,177

 
$
31,369


Warranty Liability
The following table summarizes the activity related to the Company’s accrued liability for estimated future warranty:
 
As of December 31,
 
2016
 
2015
 
2014
 
(in thousands)
Beginning balance
$
978

 
$
891

 
$
923

Charges to operations
672

 
1,079

 
536

Obligations fulfilled
(457
)
 
(578
)
 
(557
)
Changes in existing warranty
(218
)
 
(414
)
 
(11
)
Total product warranties
$
975

 
$
978

 
$
891

Current portion
$
625

 
$
645

 
$
285

Non-current portion
$
350

 
$
333

 
$
606


Changes in existing warranty reflect a combination of changes in expected warranty claims and changes in the related costs to service such claims.