Jingchengmei 2U 19-inch Hinged Wall Mount Patch Panel Bracket- 6-inch Deep Foldable Horizontal Rack for 19" Networking Equipments (JCM-HWMB2U)

Does exactly what I needed it to. Mounted it to the wall for patch panels, wires are coming out of the structured wiring cabinet. Bought it for the fact that it swings out from the wall. It is definitely not a deep rack and would not fit any of my normal networking equipment but that wasn’t it’s intended use.

Awesome delivery, it's faster than my expection! The bracket is of high quality and it fits my patch panel very well!!!

Product appears good enough for me. Not your heavy duty but good to handle the job.

Work like it should great product would recommend

The sleek design

This comes with everything you need: the mount, hardware, and even bolts and cage nuts for 2U's of stuff. It folds up nicely for shipping but I don't know when you'd ever benefit from that folding mechanic again... unless you plan to take it down and pack it somewhere tight. One of the sides with the rails swings out, which is a cool feature but personally I'd never use it because I tend to fit my cables so they look pretty and don't have a bunch of give. I will coil some up in the ceiling or on top of the HVAC, etc... so the swing out probably won't be used much.. if ever, for me.The only knock against it is more my fault than anything - the holes for mounting this to the wall are close to the inside corners so they can be kind of hard to get at. If you're drilling into studs, it can be a bit of a pain if you don't have the right tools... so make sure you have a long enough driver or bit to get 6" back in the corner.For the price, you really can't find much better. I used mine for a simple patch panel setup and it worked perfectly.

I'm up in the air on this one.It is an evenly spaced metal rack, which comes with lots of caged nuts and rack screws. It will hold rack gear. If you don't mind modifying it, it can be used as a standard rack.I don't think it can be used for its intended purpose, which appears to be mounting a patch panel that can be easily accessed from the back. Having not thought through the mounting location for my patch panel in my former house (until after I measured the cable too closely to move the rack), I fully appreciate why this exists.Quick aside - my new house has a keystone panel, which allows me to move ports, punch down outside of the rack, and add fiber, coax, and cable management for my terminal (USB, HDMI, etc)... this is probably the better solution for small space patch panels.That being said, this concept should work... here's why it doesn't:This rack is very shallow. The cable management tray of my patch panel would have to be removed to fit in this shallow area. I was counting on being able to tie some slack off on the panel management tray on the hinge side to allow the swinging rack. I'm now realizing that even if the management tray fit, it would hit the sides of the rack when swinging open... so you really can't have anything deeper than an inch or so or it won't swing. The sides of the rack swing at a rear joint too, but I believe this is just for shipping purposes. It won't swing outward, only inward (where your gear and cabling would be), and even if it did you would have to have some free open space next to your rack to fold the opposite side out of the way. Since this rack is rear mounted, you loose a lot of stability with the hinged rear panel... really your gear is holding the rack together, not the other way around.That would be fine if you are willing to zip tie, let's say 24 cables in a loom to the hinged side of the rack with some slack. If you are using unshielded CAT 6, you wouldn't want to mix frequencies (! Gig shouldn't run loomed together with multi gig). Let's say you're not worried about the cross talk issues in your install, that's a lot of cabling to be zip tied together on one side, in one specific place. If you have to replace one port, it will be a mess to find which cable goes where. Losing a decent cable management system outweighs the benefits of a swinging rack. If you think that's an overblown statement... perhaps that you won't have to modify your patch panel once installed, then you won't need a hinged rack anyway.Still into it? Let's talk about the next downside. Both racks swing open together. If you were thinking of mounting an ultra low profile switch (<6 inches deep) above or below your rack (it would have to be above if it's rear exhaust because of a metal bar in the back of the lower space), you wouldn't be able to open the rack because the rear of the switch would hit the sides of the rack. You can't just swing the space with the patch panel, both spaces are on the same hinge.If this is fine because you have a 2U patch panel (48 cables tied together now), or some other very low profile device, there's an issue with spacing against a second rack that holds your gear. This unit is rear mounted and rear mounted only. It is 6 inches deep. If and only if all your gear is 6 inches or less deep, you can mount a second rack flush with this one. If you have a second rack mounted 15 inches forward from whatever back surface this rack will be attached to, your patch panel will sit 9 inches behind your other rack and equipment.I ended up drilling holes in the side to mount this rack, and then once mounted I cut off the back brace. It doesn't swing like this obviously, it's now just a standard 2U rack, but I can mount my switch and panel together. It's still flimsy even side mounted... I couldn't image this holding more than 5 pounds if mounted from the rear with the rear hinges (which just fold it for shipping). The metal is just too thin and the shipping hinges throw a lot of slop into this.Poor execution and probably not usable... but not a total failure. The idea is solid. I would love to see a version of this where 1U of a 4 or 6U rack can swing open on a hinge. Maybe the side of the rack opposite the hinge could slide back to accommodate a populated patch panel swinging out. Maybe a custom integrated patch panel in a rack could be designed to accommodate some of the inherent flaws with this idea... maybe a patch panel could slide out and be tilted face up or face down. This existing design would have to be totally scrapped, but the product that comes of the redesign could be marketed to a higher end client.

We ordered this wall mount patch panel bracket for a wiring project in our shed. Our second level of the shed is both a guest/living room space and a home office/podcast studio. I prefer to hardwire as much as I can to get maximum bandwidth, so ran network cable to each of the walls in both rooms. This 2U panel was exactly what we needed.Rating: 5 stars. Highly recommended.