Internet outage

Why does my connection need to go through 5 devices to get to the Cox DNS server?

This is presenting too many points of failure for my connection as well as slowing it down. 

Tracing route to cdns1.cox.net [68.105.28.11]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.2
2 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.112.96.1
3 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms 172.21.0.44
4 15 ms 14 ms 15 ms chndcorc01-pos-0-7-0-0.ph.ph.cox.net [70.169.72.58]
5 11 ms 15 ms 10 ms chnddsrj01-ae2.0.rd.ph.cox.net [70.169.76.229]
6 11 ms 11 ms 14 ms cdns1.cox.net [68.105.28.11]

Trace complete.