Wall Street & Technology notes the distribution agreement obtained by Relegence to make their realtime premium and Web-based content categorization and distribution engine via the Radianz network to over 12,000 global users in the financial industry. Relegence acquires information from global news-wires, regulatory feeds, television broadcasts, news and corporate web sites, bulletin boards, discussion groups and internal corporate sources and packages it into easy to use interface objects using a wide array of tools to score relevance and provide alerts channels. Most notable in the Relegence suite of capabilities is its neutrality in sweeping through potentially valuable content sources to define what's important content at the moment, be it internal, external, premium or client-supplied - realtime aggregation akin to a Google news service, albeit for more sophisticated ends. Time was when a deal of this sort would have been a major announcement via a major distributor such as Bloomberg or Reuters, but increasingly it's network infrastructure providers who are becoming the aggregators of highest business content value as Web-based services no longer require the services of proprietary vendor networks and user platforms to reach their client bases. A bit like cable TV companies with more competition, if you will. With network vendors managing more content-oriented elements of client connectivity for professionals, they are beginning to regain leverage once lost to the winds of technology commoditization and other more margin-rich players. Expect these network companies to expand their offerings to include content and service billing capabilities that will further pressure traditional content aggregators to define their value points for premium content services.