LONDON and PITTSBURGH -- Marconi (NASDAQ and London: MONI) and HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced today the signing of a joint teaming agreement between the companies' respective Central American/Latin American (CALA) regions. The agreement allows each company to partner with the other to jointly deliver the two companies' products and services to customers in the region. This allows each company to significantly broaden the portfolio of solutions it can offer to its customers. "Marconi's product and service offerings compliment those of HP very well," said Fausto Dedeschi, HP's NSP director for the Latin American region. "By combining the networking expertise of Marconi with the systems integration and operations support systems capabilities of HP, customers in Latin America will have access to a breadth of strong technical solutions." Under terms of the agreement, Marconi will provide products and engineering services for both wireless and wireline networks. The Marconi product families involved in the agreement include optical, broadband switching, access and power. HP will provide systems and network management integration, operations support systems (OSS), network operations center (NOC) and billing services. Marconi PLC Hewlett-Packard Co.