Our History

DSI is a family-owned and operated business, born in 1984 in Des Moines, Iowa out of the C-Band satellite business. Since then, DSI has evolved to become a powerful force for its partners for their custom business solutions and sales enablement.

 

Our Mission: We provide enhanced value that delivers results for our clients and partners; through sales management, marketing assistance, event management scheduling, hardware logistic solutions, immersive training, engineering expertise and proprietary software solutions.



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YEARS OF EXCELLENCE

Family-Owned

PRIVATELY-HELD BUSINESS

EMPLOYEES AND GROWING

The Evolution of DSI

1984

Our first location opened in Des Moines, Iowa selling C-band satellite equipment.

Our first location in Des Moines, Iowa.
DSI Founders Dave and Doug Robison

Founders Dave and Doug Robison

1994

One of the 5 original distributors to launch DIRECTV in partnership with RCA.

1999

Nationally Awarded RCA Consumer Electronics

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2004

Launched Wild Blue high-speed internet as the original distributor.

2013

Sales and reporting application, a.k.a. SARA was born. With more enhancements, it later became known as SARA Plus, the one and only application you need to run your business efficiently and successfully.

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2014

Launched DIRECTV L&I and MDU programs, along with an engineering lab.

2018

National Retail organization and The Tower call center established to take calls on behalf of one of the largest telecom companies in the world.

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The current DSI office.

Today

We continue to launch more services to
drive sales for our partners.