%0 Journal Article %T Hacia la pr¨®xima generaci¨®n de sistemas de Radio sobre Fibra de banda ancha: retos tecnol¨®gicos en la banda de las ondas milim¨¦tricas %A Granada Torres %A Jhon James %A Serpa Imbett %A Claudia Milena %A Var¨®n Dur¨¢n %A Gloria Margarita %A Guerrero Gonz¨¢lez %A Neil %J Ingenier¨ªa y Desarrollo %D 2011 %I Universidad del Norte %X in this paper, we present a review based in the most relevant scientific works of radio-over-fiber technology. the most important issues of the state-of-the-art evolution are exposed. we show a description of the main devices and the most recent experimental tests that suggest the integration between wired and wireless networks, and the convergence in heteroge-neous networks. in this review, we identify a trend toward the increase of the radiofrecuency-carrier in the millimeter-wave bands (75-100 ghz) which show that the next generation of radio-over-fiber system will operate in this band of large capacity available. the challenge consisting of reaching multi-gbps wireless transmissions in these systems very soon. %K base station (bs) %K central office (co) %K millimeter-wave (mmw) %K radio-over-fiber (rof) %K w band. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0122-34612011000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en