OPC Funnel provides a single gateway that enables OPC clients to easily connect to multiple OPC Servers. This is ideal in situations where a client, such as a process historian, can only make a single connection to a data source due to licensing restrictions, or perhaps where a poorly programmed OPC client is only able to make one connection to a single OPC server.

MatrikonOPC Funnel now has the following advanced functions:

- Offline Mode: developed to aid system-integration; this functionality simplifies OPC Server configuration by allowing OPC Clients to access data from all configured OPC items even when the underlying data-source is not available. For example: during plant commissioning; instead of delaying HMI graphic screen testing until the end of the project, when all the OPC Servers' data-sources are available - such tests can now be run at any time using the Offline Mode random test data.
- Device Level Redundancy: This function makes it possible to maximize OPC data reliability by enabling the OPC Server to access multiple data-sources in a redundant fashion without the need for specialized hardware and/or additional custom software.