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Well it looks like I got shafted and I won't be able to fit my wall mounted double hinged rack that looked similar to this.



So now I'm debating to do this..



or this...



First one has a 6 inch depth and the second one has a 12 inch depth.

Trying to squeeze in the following...

(1) 24 Port CAT 6 Patch Panel
(1) 1U Wire Manager
(1) 24 Port CAT 6 Patch Panel
(1) 16 or 24 Port Switch

What are my advantages or disadvantages?

I saw this in the Constructive Criticism topic...




Is this how it's done? What are any other ways?

Jwooten sent me this link a while back:
https://www.ezmt.com/

According to what you posted you need minimum 4U rack space and consideration for an active component (the switch)
Assuming you want the equipment out of sight, I'd try one of these, quite inexpensive:

Quest cabinet
This is their cheapest model.

If you need a better-known brand and you need to mount the switch vertically, I suggest the Rebox from Hubbell, here's the catalog page
Rebox

I dont like to run short wall mount swing brackets. But there are times it has to be done. You might check the link Jeff put up. A switch is going to have trouble mounting in the 12" you mentioned. Oh and I like the Hubble that was mentioned aswell.

As for the image link, unfortunatly yes it is done like that except the orange patch cables looping back through the panel. Oh and make sure you run a ground to the wall mount swing bracket.

I had to mount 3 patch panels on a wall mount bracket, and the switches went on a shelf. Not the greatest setup but it works. Everything is inside large wall-to-wall wooden cabinets so it's totally hidden. With a mess of cables like this (thanks to the IT guy) I am glad it's behind doors.

I've always found that it is much better to use multiple swinging wall brackets, butted on top of each other. Each of the patch panels and WM units can be mounted on one oversized bracket and the switch can be mounted on another. That way, if you need to get to the back side of anything, you don't need to disrupt the whole thing.

Don't forget that there's no reason why you can't mount a shelf on a swinging wall bracket to handle devices that aren't intended for rack mounting, as illustrated in Jeff's picture above. Also, most rack-mount devices offer rack mounting bracket flexibility by being reversible so that so much depth isn't needed. Here is an old pic of my setup at home that demonstrates how the brackets on the switch were reversed so that the switch simply sticks out a bit more than normal:

Ed, in my picture, the switches are on the shelf that is part of the whole wooden cabinet.

ICC has an "InstaRAQ" - It can mount to a side wall to make the depth you want, or to the backboard and your equipment mounts sideways. A bit hard to visualize, but if you go to their site you can get a spec sheet.

We have used them in the past and are trying to migrate away from them. We never installed with the to install switches in them, only patch panels and wire management.

Here is a picture that I dug up that we completed a few years ago using the wall swing brackets.

We also use these for Inter-Tel 5000 systems when there is not a rack in place.
https://www.iscdfw.com/onlinecatalog/wall-mount/wall-mount-unibracket.htm