The system is there to give Houston a direct communication link to the station in the early stages of construction (otherwise, everything must funnel through Mission Control outside Moscow).

CNN: liftoff

Marc Speichert: Consumers are clearly moving outside the traditional purchasing funnel, changing the way they research and buy products.

FORBES: L'Or��al on Digitalizing the Purchase Funnel

The plan now is to try to use some of these local groups to funnel the vast sums of foreign aid money finally being promised into Somalia, taking the pressure off the swelling camps outside.

BBC: Solving Somalia's aid conundrum