Mumbai, July 29 -- As data centres proliferate across India, Tata Communications Ltd sees a $1 billion opportunity in connecting them.

"In India alone, we expect a 5x increase in data centre capacity. Data getting connected in these facilities is a necessity, so in some estimates, the intra-data centre connectivity in India could be a $1 billion opportunity," Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, its managing director and chief executive, told Mint in an interview.

He said the company's goal will be to corner a bigger share of the data centre-to-data centre networking opportunity in the country. "We're relying on both interconnections between data centres, as well as offering managed network services outside the data centres, to grow. Eventually, we...