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Other Income (Loss), net	12 Months Ended
Other Income (Loss), net	Oct. 31, 2015
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract]
Other Income (Loss), net	Other Income, Net On May 20, 2013, Brocade and A10 Networks, Inc. (“A10”) reached an agreement to settle both the lawsuit that Brocade filed against A10, A10’s founder, and other individuals in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on August 4, 2010, and the lawsuit that A10 filed against Brocade on September 9, 2011, along with all related claims. Among other agreed upon terms, A10 has granted the Company a broad patent license and agreed to pay the Company $5.0 million in cash and issued a $70.0 million unsecured convertible promissory note payable to the Company, which bore interest at 8% per annum. A10 fully paid the unsecured convertible promissory note in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013. A10 also has agreed not to use any of the versions of source code that were found to infringe any of Brocade’s copyrights, patents, or trade secrets, except as necessary to service prior versions of product already sold to and in the possession of A10’s customers. In addition, the settlement provides certain mutual covenants not to sue for various periods of time and certain general releases. Based on the fair value of the consideration received as a result of this settlement, the Company recognized a gain of $76.8 million in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013, which is reported within “Other income, net” in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Income for the fiscal year ended October 26, 2013.