Alabama-based Adtran has become a global leader in supplying equipment for deploying fiber networks, both to the home and to the neighborhood or MDU, as well as allowing copper wire-bound telcos to upgrade those to the kinds of speeds consumers want in 2016 and beyond. And those consumers are worldwide as shown by Adtran’s latest announcement. The Israeli incumbent telco Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication has been using Adtran’s G.fast gear in field trials in one of Israel’s largest, but unnamed, cities. The trial involves different copper loop lengths and their impact on broadband speeds over Adtran’s G.fast architecture, which allows telcos to specify their G.fast chipmaker and the number ports for each DPU (Distribution Point Unit) where fiber and copper to…