Extreme Networks SummitStack Expansion Module

and my name is Patrick Laporte I'm a director of product marketing for Network automation I was part of NF D 12 when we initially presented and we're really looking forward today to showing you some of the new innovations and the new advancements we've made with our automation platform in our SLX switching platform now I've got some great demonstrations lined up this is really all about doing demonstrations and allowing you guys to dig in to the technology ask questions I've got some great presenters who are going to come up and show the capabilities that we're talking about I think we've got some really cool things that we're going to show and so take the time make sure you ask those questions but before we get to a lot of that I want to first spend just a few minutes talking about the new extreme as Tom mentioned we're under a little bit different colors and I want to go into that a l