How to throttle data to a given data rate on a TCP Connection

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There are multiple incoming TCP connections and you need to architect a system that will write to an outgoing TCP connection at a particular data rate. How do you programmatically achieve this. The ordering of the packets from different threads is unimportant, assumptions can be made on that.

Is this just a rate-limiting algorithm? Or are there TCP-related protocol characteristics that can be exploited?

Rejected answer: Using a queue and a timer to achieve this through the leaky-bucket approach (This was an interview question)

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