Abstract: A jitter buffer having a controllable delay associated therewith includes at least one ring buffer. The ring buffer includes a plurality of storage elements therein and is configured having independent read and write operations. The delay associated with the jitter buffer is controllable as a function of the number of elements between a first element accessed by the write operation and a second element accessed by the read operation. The minimum number of elements in the ring buffer may be determined as a function of the maximum acceptable jitter divided by the size of a data frame to be stored in the ring buffer.