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What is a single-provider (one-stop) operator?

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A one-stop operator carries an entire multi-site project — access, network, hosting, services — under a single contract and single responsibility, owning the subcontracting of whatever it does not deliver in-house.

The one-stop model is a contracting approach: a single provider takes responsibility for the whole project — each site’s local loop, the network (MPLS or SD-WAN), server hosting, and managed services (firewall, telephony, backup).

Its value: one contract, one SLA, one point of contact when something breaks — no more finger-pointing between the host, the carrier and the integrator. The ideal candidate is the integrated operator-host: it connects the whole territory, hosts in its own data centers and runs services in its backbone. Otherwise, a one-stop provider owns and displays the subcontracting of the lots it does not deliver itself.

The thing to check: that it actually covers every site and every lot — which is exactly what the DataColoc quote tests, line by line and site by site, to tell which partner can carry the entire demand.

Current benchmarks from our catalog (updated 2026-11-01)
Cross-connect90–170 €/mo
IP transit 1 Gbps150–400 €/mo
Quarter rack250–500 €/mo
Power150–260 €/kVA/mo
IPv4 address2–3 €/IP/mo

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