A company is planning to implement a disaster recovery site. The site must provide highest level of data availability, with minimal latency. Which type of replication should the company use?

IP-based asynchronous replication introduces a replication lag, meaning some data may be lost on failure, which does not satisfy the highest availability requirement.

Fibre Channel asynchronous replication still incurs a potential data loss window due to the asynchronous lag, despite the low-latency transport.

IP-based synchronous replication guarantees zero data loss but introduces higher and less consistent latency than Fibre Channel, making it inferior when minimal latency is also a stated requirement.

Synchronous replication confirms a write only after data has been committed to both the primary and secondary site, guaranteeing a recovery point objective (RPO) of zero and maximum data availability. Fibre Channel provides lower and more deterministic latency than IP-based networks, making FC synchronous the best choice when both minimal latency and the highest availability tier are required simultaneously.