9.	Intangible Assets

The Company’s intangible assets are comprised of purchased intangibles consisting of customer relationships, channel relationships, telecommunications software, trade names and trademarks and non-compete agreements. Intangible assets acquired in connection with a business combination are valued at fair value and amortized on a straight-line basis over the expected useful life which may range from three (3) to ten (10) years or more depending on the intangible asset characteristics.

The Company’s intangible assets also include internally developed software used in the sales and delivery of its information technology service offerings. The Company capitalizes certain internal costs related to software development to deliver its information technology services including but not limited to its Intelligent Telecommunications Management System (ITMS™), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Optimiser Telecom Data Intelligence (TDI™) applications. Significant development costs are capitalized from the point of demonstrated technological feasibility until the point in time that the product is available for general release to customers. Once the product is available for general release, capitalized costs are amortized based on units sold, or on a straight-line basis generally over the expected functional life which may range from two (2) to five (5) years.

The following tables summarize purchased and internally developed intangible assets subject to amortization as of the periods presented below:

	DECEMBER 31, 2017
							Weighted
							Average
	Gross Carrying		Accumulated		Net Book		Amortization
	Amount		Amortization		Value		Period

Customer Relationships	$	1,980,000	$	(1,485,000)	$	495,000		8
Channel Relationships		2,628,080		(642,420)		1,985,660		5
Internally Developed Software		3,181,794		(2,246,650)		935,144		3
Cybersecurity Authority to Operate		444,662		(408,427)		36,235		3
Trade Name and Trademarks		290,472		(71,005)		219,467		5

	$	8,525,008	$	(4,853,502)	$	3,671,506

	DECEMBER 31, 2016
							Weighted
							Average
	Gross Carrying		Accumulated		Net Book		Amortization
	Amount		Amortization		Value		Period

Customer Relationships	$	1,980,000	$	(1,237,500)	$	742,500		8
Channel Relationships		2,628,080		(467,215)		2,160,865		5
Internally Developed Software		2,796,756		(1,811,984)		984,772		3
Cybersecurity Authority to Operate		444,665		(272,732)		171,933		3
Trade Name and Trademarks		290,472		(51,640)		238,832		5

	$	8,139,973	$	(3,841,071)	$	4,298,902

Purchased Intangibles

For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company did not recognize any acquisition related intangible assets.

For the year ended December 31, 2017 there were no disposals or sales of purchased intangible assets. For the year ended December 31, 2016 the Company disposed of fully amortized purchased intangible assets with a historical cost and accumulated amortization of approximately $610,000.

Internally Developed

For the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company recorded capitalized software costs related to our capitalized internally developed software costs of approximately $385,000 related to costs associated with our next generation TDI™ application.

During the year ended December 31, 2016 the Company initially capitalized approximately $441,000 of software development costs associated with its certificate-on-device solution set during the second and third quarter of 2016. During the fourth quarter of 2016, the Company wrote off all amounts capitalized due to loss of a key integrator for this solution.

The total weighted average remaining life of purchased and internally developed intangible assets is approximately 6.6 years and 2.6 years, respectively, at December 31, 2017.

The following table summarizes reflects estimated future amortization by purchased intangible asset type for fiscal years ending December 31:

	2018		2019		2020		2021		2022		Thereafter		Total

Customer Relationships	$	247,500	$	247,500	$	-	$	-	$	-	$	-	$	495,000
Channel Relationships		175,200		175,200		175,200		175,200		175,200		1,109,660		1,985,660
Internally Developed Software		269,500		269,500		219,700		73,600		73,600		29,244		935,144
Cybersecurity Authority to Operate		36,200		-		-		-		-		35		36,235
Trade Name and Trademarks		19,400		19,400		19,400		19,400		19,400		122,467		219,467

	$	747,800	$	711,600	$	414,300	$	268,200	$	268,200	$	1,261,406	$	3,671,506

The aggregate amortization expense recorded was approximately $1,078,600 and $1,125,000 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.