Digital Alert Systems, LLC  was formed in October 2003 following a discussion of how present IP based technologies could improve the cost and operation of FCC specified EAS encoders and decoders. Investigation demonstrated that current generation hardware and software programming could produce a greatly improved cost-effective product for the Emergency Alert System. The result was the DASDEC.

FCC certification of the DASDEC and hundreds of systems in the Broadcast, Cable, TelcoTV, and Emergency Operation Centers are proof that a software based EAS system with network communication can more effectively serve today's EAS needs and provide an easier upgrade path to CAP and other CAP like applications.