Not your DARPAs Internet

So what the hell happened - a long time ago, in a millenium far far away a bunch of egghead computer guys designed a network with error correction, retries, redundancy, flexible routing, etc. etc. all so it could survive a nuclear war. That network was called DARPAnet and grew up into the Internet.

But low and behold today it seems with all the progress companies like Sprint are still building networks with single points of failure that at the whim of a single misguided backhoe (or it's ilk) can fail and take out their entire West Coast network.

Can I say... DUH!