Federal Internet Exchange Connection point between the North American governmental internets and the Internet The FIXs are named after their geographic region, as in FIX West (Mountain View, California) and FIX East (College Park, Maryland) See CIX, GIX, and MAE
To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room
If you fix something for someone, you arrange for it to happen or you organize it for them. I've fixed it for you to see Bonnie Lachlan It's fixed. He's going to meet us at the airport They thought that their relatives would be able to fix the visas He vanished after you fixed him with a job We fixed for the team to visit our headquarters They'd fixed yesterday that Mike'd be in late today
If you fix a problem or a bad situation, you deal with it and make it satisfactory. It's not too late to fix the problem, although time is clearly getting short Fixing a 40-year-old wrong does not mean, however, that history can be undone