Rack with a lower frame and an upper frame made of a continuous section

In a rack for a switching cabinet having a bottom frame and a top frame (10, 20) assembled from horizontal depth and width struts (21, 22) on which the depth and width struts (21, 22) are arranged at an angle to each other and have corner mounts (25) open to an outside of the rack on which vertical frame sections (40) can be mounted, wherein the ends of the depth and width struts (21, 22) form guides on which the vertical frame sections (40) are positioned and in which the depth and width struts of at least one of the lower frame and the top frame (10, 20) are joined together in one piece to a continuous section, the improvement comprising the continuous section formed from a stamped and bent part, the depth and width struts (21, 22) joined by a plurality of connection sections (29) on which the depth struts (21) are bent out relative to the width struts (22), and a plurality of vertical support surfaces (26) are spaced from the guides (28) in the corner mounts (25) of at least one of the lower frame and the top frame (10, 20) on which a plurality of first ends of the vertical frame sections (40) can be positioned.